Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology

by Julia Adeney Thomas

Book Overview

Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520228545
• ISBN13: 9780520228542
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"