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In this work, historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries that compartmentalize the world around us. Exploring European and Japanese conceptions of modernity, he seeks to expose the archaic nature of scholarly categories.

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By performing [the] dramatic, initial foray through an extraordinarily fertile research site that others can now settle and plow, History's Disquiet achieves the status of pioneering work. The Journal of Asian Studies This is an extraordinary book... It should be read and reread. -- Takashi Fujitani Pacific Historical Review

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Introduction: The Unavoidable "Actuality" of Everyday Life 1: Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of "Globalism" 2: The "Mystery of the Everyday": Everydayness in History 3: "Dialectical Optics": Everydayness in History

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/03/2002
      ISBN13: 9780231117951, 978-0231117951
      ISBN10: 0231117957

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this work, historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries that compartmentalize the world around us. Exploring European and Japanese conceptions of modernity, he seeks to expose the archaic nature of scholarly categories.

      Trade Review
      By performing [the] dramatic, initial foray through an extraordinarily fertile research site that others can now settle and plow, History's Disquiet achieves the status of pioneering work. The Journal of Asian Studies This is an extraordinary book... It should be read and reread. -- Takashi Fujitani Pacific Historical Review

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: The Unavoidable "Actuality" of Everyday Life 1: Tracking the Dinosaur: Area Studies in a Time of "Globalism" 2: The "Mystery of the Everyday": Everydayness in History 3: "Dialectical Optics": Everydayness in History

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