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Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a household name in the nineteenth century; once an immensely popular writer, he is now largely forgotten. This book explores how Scott's work became an all-pervasive point of reference for cultural memory and collective identity in the nineteent…
Examines how the death of Emperor Hirohito, the end of the Cold War, and wealth are all contributing to contemporary changes in Japanese society.
The author "asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself" and that the Japanese are seeking to alter "the relationship…
Examines how the death of Emperor Hirohito, the end of the Cold War, and wealth are all contributing to contemporary changes in Japanese society.
"Drafting the Russian Nation is the first archivally based study of the relationship between military conscription and nation-building in a European country. Stressing the importance of violence to national political consciousness, it shows how national identity was formed and m…
Focusing on Greece, explores the formation of culture on the periphery of Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Jusdanis (modern Greek, Ohio State U.) traces the emergence of national art and literature, and its introduction to prenational society. Paper edition (1981-6), $…
