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Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940
By (Author) Thomas R.H. Havens
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Asian history
338.10952
Paperback
372
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish periods.