National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States

In: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Abstract

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. National History and the Shape of the Nineteenth- Century World -- Part I. Spaces of History -- 2. Liberal Social Imaginaries and the Interiority of History -- 3. The Nationality of Expansion -- 4. Decline, Renewal, and the Rhetoric of Will -- Part II . Times of Crisis -- 5. The Rupture of Meiji and the New Japan -- 6. Americanization and Historical Consciousness -- 7. French Revolution, Third Republic -- Conclusion: National History and Other Worlds -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index