Oleg Benesch, Ran Zwigenberg

Japan's Castles

Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 221mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481946
• ISBN-10: 1108481949
• Artikelnr.: 54801961

Autorenporträt

Oleg Benesch is Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of York. He is the author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. From Feudalism to Empire: 1. Castles and the transition to the imperial state
2. The discovery of castles, 1877-1912
3. Castles, civil society, and the paradoxes of 'Taisho militarism'
4. Castles in war and peace: celebrating modernity, empire, and war
Part II. From Feudalism to the Edge of Space: 5. Castles in war and peace II: Kokura, Kanazawa, and the rehabilitation of the nation
6. 'Fukk¿': Hiroshima Castle rises from the ashes
7. Escape from the center: castles and the search for local identity
8. Japan's new castle builders: recapturing tradition and culture
Conclusions.