National History and the World of Nations
GBP 25.99
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ISBN13: | 9780822343165 |
ISBN10: | 0822343169 |
Kötéstípus: | Puhakötés |
Terjedelem: | 368 oldal |
Méret: | 235x156 mm |
Súly: | 531 g |
Nyelv: | angol |
700 |
Delving into narrative histories, prose fiction, and social philosophy, Hill analyzes the rhetoric, narrative form, and intellectual genealogy of late-nineteenth-century texts that contributed to the creation of national history in each of the three countries. He discusses the global political economy of the era, the positions of the three countries in it, and the reasons that arguments about history loomed large in debates on political, economic, and social problems. Examining how the writing of national histories in the three countries addressed political transformations and the place of the nation in the world, Hill illuminates the ideological labor national history performed. Its production not only naturalized the division of the world by systems of states and markets, but also asserted the inevitability of the nationalization of human community; displaced dissent to pre-modern, pre-national pasts; and presented the subject’s acceptance of a national identity as an unavoidable part of the passage from youth to adulthood.
Acknowledgments xv
1. National History and the Shape of the Nineteenth-Century World 1
Part I. Spaces of History
2. Liberal Social Imaginaries and the Interiority of History 47
3. The Nationality of Expansion 82
4. Decline, Renewal, and the Rhetoric of Will 119
Part II. Times of Crisis
5. The Rupture of Meiji and the New Japan 155
6. Americanization and Historical Consciousness 194
7. French Revolution, Third Republic 233
Conclusion: National History and Other Worlds 269
Notes 283
Bibliography 309
Index 329