New times in modern Japan

New times in modern Japan / Stefan Tanaka.

New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock be...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tanaka, Stefan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1868-1912
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Tijd.
Tijdsbesef.
Vernieuwing.
Het Verleden.
Geschiedschrijving.
Japan > History > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japan
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Time, pasts, history
  • Discovery of pasts
  • "Nothing is the way it should be"
  • Naturalization of nation : essential time
  • Naturalization of nation : chronological time
  • Socialization of society
  • Socialization of nature : museumification.

Similar Items