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The twentieth century poses a problem for the historian. The actors on the historical stage are in the midst of an ongoing drama, and our observation of this drama, to say nothing of our understanding of it, is also in flux. Research on the history of twentieth-century Japan, much of it in the social sciences, seems to be expanding at an almost exponential rate. The study of the Japanese economy alone has become a major academic cottage industry in the past decade, engaging specialists both inside and outside the field of Japanese studies. By its very nature, then, a volume of this sort, concentrating on the twentieth century, is an exercise in obsolescence. Like the later volumes of the first Lord Acton's Cambridge Modern History, this volume is the most likely among those of the Cambridge History ofJapan to require early revision. Given this reality, it seemed wiser to plan the volume as a discursive guide to twentieth-century Japan than as a complete Baedeker with each site and vista along the way properly noted and catalogued. For example, there is less space, and hence less detail of coverage, devoted to political and diplomatic history than there might have been. But as ther

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Author

Ed. by Peter Duus

Publisher

Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press : [distributor] Cambridge University Press (South Africa) : [distributor] Cambridge University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521223546

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Asian History, Humanities