Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

by Carol Gluck

Book Overview

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691008124
• ISBN13: 9780691008127
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"