ISBN:
9780804785396
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9780804786690 (Sekundärausgabe)
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
329 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780804786690
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
303.48
Schlagwort(e):
Geschichte 1931-1945
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Krieg
;
Technologie
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Kolonialismus
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Japan
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Kurzfassung:
The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931-1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilization-what historian Aaron Moore terms a ""technological imaginary""-to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different...
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