Rediscovering America by Peter Duus

Rediscovering America by Peter Duus

In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes - America's origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance - making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.

Peter Duus is Professor Emeritus of History at Stanford University. He is the author of The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents; The Japanese Wartime Empire; Modern Japan; and The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895--1910 (UC Press). Kenji Hasegawa is Assistant Professor of History at Yokohama National University.

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ISBN 13	9780520268456
ISBN 10	0520268458
Titel	Rediscovering America
Autor	Peter Duus
Serie	Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence Of A World Power
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of California Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2011-09-01
Seitenanzahl	360
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