Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan

by Lisa Yoshikawa

Making History Matter explores the role history and historians played in imperial Japan's nation and empire building from the 1890s to the 1930s. As ideological architects of this process, leading historians wrote and rewrote narratives that justified the expanding realm. Learning from their Prussian counterparts, they highlighted their empiricist methodology and their scholarly standpoint, to authenticate their perspective and to distinguish themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975170
• ISBN13: 9780674975170
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"