"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. Yoshikawa argues that schol…
"By 1930, women in Bengal were visible in the public arena with their participation in the national movement. Could this public appearance be taken as proof of their breaking with traditional gender stereotypes?"--BOOK JACKET. "The author argues that 'purdah' in early-twentieth-…
"This is the first book to explicitly compare extreme rightist organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. Hardly an undifferentiated whole, the right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile has changed over time and has contained moderate and extr…