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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.
Author: Christopher Hill
ISBN-10: 0822342987
ISBN-13: 9780822342984
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d
Christopher L. Hill is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Yale University.
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