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Book SynopsisIn Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute the city took their characteristic modern shape.
Trade Review"[A] fascinating and wide-ranging study... An enlightening message." -- Alexander Jacoby The Times Literary Supplement "Young's deeply layered work combining cultural and urban history is a remarkable achievement." American Historical Review "Stimulating... finely argued." -- Lori Watt Journal of Japanese Studies "Through clearly formulated and detaield discussions... [Young's] line of argument takes [her] to the edges of profound and highly contested dynamics in the historiography of twentieth-century Japan... illuminating work..." Pacific Affairs Book Review "Beyond the Metropolis offers the most thought-provoking and consequential treatment of Japanese urbanism in well over a decade." Monumenta Nipponica
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part One. Contexts Introduction: Urbanism and Japanese Modern 1. World War One and the City Idea Part Two. Geo-Power and Urban-Centrism 2. The Ideology of the Metropolis 3. Colonizing the Country Part Three. Modern Times and the City Idea 4. The Past in the Present 5. The Cult of the New Epilogue: Urbanism and Twentieth-Century Japan Notes Bibliography Index
