National history and the world of nations : capital, state, and the rhetoric of history in Japan, France, and the United States /

National history and the world of nations : capital, state, and the rhetoric of history in Japan, France, and the United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hill, Christopher L., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Asia-Pacific.
Subjects:
Nationalism and historiography > Japan.
Nationalism and historiography > France.
Nationalism and historiography > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • National history and the shape of the nineteenth-century world
  • Spaces of history
  • Liberal social imaginaries and the interiority of history
  • The nationality of expansion
  • Decline, renewal, and the rhetoric of will
  • Times of crisis
  • The rupture of Meiji and the new Japan
  • Americanization and historical consciousness
  • French Revolution, Third Republic
  • Conclusion: National history and other worlds.