Ennobling Japan’s Savage Northeast

Tōhoku as Japanese Postwar Thought, 1945–2011

Nathan Hopson

Add to Cart

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$49.95 • £39.95 • €45.00

ISBN 9780674977006

Publication Date: 10/30/2017

x Text

378 pages

6 x 9 inches

5 halftones, 4 maps

Harvard University Asia Center > Harvard East Asian Monographs

World

Related Subjects

“[An] erudite and engaging analysis… Hopson’s skillful narrative never loses sight of its central insights, resulting in a fluid and fascinating study of the ways in which historical (re)interpretation proves both changeable over time and consequential in establishing—or reinterpreting—a nation’s cultural character and values.”—L. A. Makela, Choice

Buy Elsewhere

Find at a Library »Cite This Book » About HUP eBooks About Exam Copies

Here and There: Sites of Philosophy, by Stanley Cavell, edited by Nancy Bauer, Alice Crary, and Sandra Laugier, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Alessio Terzi, author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe, argued at LSE Business Review that there’s nothing anti-capitalist about a shorter workweek; today’s conversations about a three-day weekend are not a shift in paradigm but rather a continuation of the paradigm we have seen for over two centuries.
Bring the War Home author Kathleen Belew spoke at length with Walter Isaacson as part of Amanpour & Co.’s ongoing series “Exploring Hate.”
Joshua Zimmerman discussed Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland with Polish politician Radosław Sikorski on Wolne Radio Europa.
Kathryn Gin Lum, author of Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, explained on the podcast Straight White American Jesus how White American Christians used the label “heathen” in order to name those they deemed not only different, but in need of saving (with “saving” often meaning occupation of native lands, overtaking cultures, and the exclusion of those who refused to, or couldn’t, assimilate).

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Marking the 75th Anniversary of Independence from British Rule

August 14 and August 15 mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of independence from British rule for Pakistan and India, respectively. Inextricably linked to the birth of these two South Asian nations is the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent that tragically accompanied the end of British colonialism. …

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library I Tatti Renaissance Library logo (bee)

I Tatti Renaissance Library

Loeb Classical Library

Murty Classical Library of India

Resources for: Authors | Booksellers & Librarians | Educators | Journalists | Readers

Harvard University Press offices are located at 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & 8 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL UK

A Message from HUP about COVID-19 (April 2020)