The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States

by Andrew Gordon, Norma Field, Martin Collcutt, et al.

The present volume documents the postwar history of United States scholarship on Japan. A careful selection of North American scholars under the general editorship of Helen Hardacre (Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University) shows that a range of factors have directed Japanese studies in the United States since 1945. Among these factors are social and political change in Japan and the United States, shifts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004109811
• ISBN13: 9789004109810
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.5" x 6.5"