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National pasts in Europe and East Asia / P.W. Preston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preston, P. W. (Peter Wallace), 1949- author.
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
- Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 66
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Europe.
- Nationalism.
- Nationalism--East Asia.
- Collective memory--Europe.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory--East Asia.
- Social change--Europe.
- Social change.
- Social change--East Asia.
- Europe--Relations--East Asia.
- Europe.
- East Asia--Relations--Europe.
- East Asia.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- East Asia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Un
- Contents:
- Front Cover; National Pasts in Europeand East Asia; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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 Bangkok10 Japan and China: national pasts and the reordering of East Asia; 11 Europe and East Asia: intermingled pasts and changing identities; 12 Afterword: war is failure; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-345) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-95945-9
- 1-283-52010-9
- 9786613832559
- 0-203-85002-5
- 1-136-95946-7
- 9780203850022
- OCLC:
- 804661581
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