National pasts in Europe and East Asia
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National pasts in Europe and East Asia
(Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia, 66)
Routledge, 2010
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-345) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With the rise of industrial capitalism in Europe and the related imposition of colonial rule in much of East Asia, both Europe and East Asia have intertwined histories that continue to shape their political thinking and political decision making. The contemporary interactions of the two regions - now once again major trading partners - will both depend upon and facilitate deeper understandings of their respective sets of national pasts. This book compares national pasts as well as the current processes of change taking place in Europe and East Asia, including the dynamics of the European Union in Europe and the re-emergence of the historical centre of China in East Asia. It argues that as the change unfolds in the economic, social and political fields, the various national pasts embedded with the polities of the two regions will also need to be revisited and reworked. This book makes an invaluable contribution to research on comparative politics, as well as studies on South East Asia and Europe.
Table of Contents
1. National Pasts in Europe and East Asia 2. The Scale and Pace of Change Recalled 3. Available Lessons: Private Memories and Wider European Agendas 4. Europe: General Crisis, Collapse and Recovery 5. Uncomfortable Lessons: The European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008 6. Reading the Ongoing Changes: European Identity 7. Sweeping Change in East Asia: Political Leaders and the Experience of Violence 8. East Asia: General Crisis, Collapse and National Development 9. Contested Compromises: National Pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Bangkok 10. Japan/China: National Pasts and the Reordering of East Asia 11. Europe and East Asia: Intermingled Pasts and Changing Identities 12. Afterword: War is Failure
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