{"product_id":"science-for-the-empire-9780804776561","title":"Science for the Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative look at Japan's wartime discourse of science and nationalism and how it shaped postwar Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book's discourse analysis approach works well—it effectively reveals how discourses about science and the scientific was bound up with a whole host of other significant ideas.\" -- Eiko Maruko Siniawer * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A very important contribution to Japanese intellectual and social history. Mizuno's book will require historians and social scientists of Japan to consider further the importance of the natural sciences, nationalism, and discourses about them for the larger field of study.\" -- James Bartholomew * The Ohio State University *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this fine book, Hiromi Mizuno addresses questions about the discursive relationship of science to nationalism and modernity in interwar and wartime Japan . . . Mizuno argues convincingly that the concept of scientific nationalism contributes to our understanding of nationalism more generally by highlighting the inherent contradictions between national claims to difference and national aspirations to excellence in the international scientific community, which demands universal validity for its findings . . . Mizuno has produced a book that contributes to the intellectual, cultural, and social history of the world as well as Japan.\" -- Sally Hastings * \u003ci\u003eMonumenta Nipponica\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The amount that can be read between the lines alone of this clear snapshot of the origins of certain aspects of modern Japan, which are often treated as more traditional, makes the book worth the read. The volume also fills a gap in the history of science caused by the discipline's traditionally Eurocentric focus, and is a critical contribution to the English-language history of both science and Japan.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mizuno's] work presents numerous opportunities to begin transnational inquiry, especially given the enormous soft power of the postwar Japanese state in northeast and southeast Asia . . . If \u003ci\u003eScience for the Empire\u003c\/i\u003e concisely and incisively challenges an older portrait of Japan, it offers similar questions to scholars of the nation's regional neighbors and partners.\" -- John DiMoia * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Northeast Asia History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an important book that shows us that there was a battle over 'science' even before the war and it continued in peacetime with groups such as Minka.\" -- Morris Low * \u003ci\u003eJapanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his is an excellent study of Japanese science from the interwar through wartime years that will stand the test of time. Mizuno has provided valuable insight into the minds of technologists, scientists, philosophers and historians of science, and writers that reveals their motivations as they related to one another, the state, and society at large. This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing literature of the history of science in Japan.\" -- David G. Wittner * \u003ci\u003eEast Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Mizuno] brings to light some of the overlooked linkages between prewar and postwar Japan and suggests a useful means of considering some of the other instances of boosterism apparent in global history . . . [\u003ci\u003eScience for the Empire\u003c\/i\u003e] sheds additional light upon the contested nature of social change in interwar Japan and usefully supplements that growing body of work.\" -- Bill Sewell * \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hiromi Mizuno describes a vigorous, wide-ranging debate over science from the 1920's into the early 1940's.\" -- Julia Adeney Thomas * \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mizuno's analysis also informs areas such as the economic and political roles of nuclear development, the direction of computer-related industries, and robotics. . . . In all, it is a modest gem using fresh materials and approaches to get at important issues.\" -- Wesley Sasaki-Uemura * \u003ci\u003eAsian Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Scholars of modern Japan, and any scholars wanting to learn of the role and expectations of science and its relationship to the state, should carefully read this important work.\" -- John E. Van Sant * \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments\txxx  Note on Transliteration\txxx  Introduction \t1  Part 1 \tTechnocracy  Chapter 1 Toward Technocracy \t000  Chapter 2 Technocratic Vision for a Scientific Empire\t000  Part 2\tMarxism  Chapter 3 Incomplete Modernity and the Problem of Science \t000  Chapter 4 Mapping Marxism onto the Politics of the Scientific \t000  Chapter 5 Constructing the Scientific Japanese Tradition \t000  Part 3\tPopular Science   Chapter 6 The Mobilization of Wonder \t000  Conclusion\t000  Notes\t000  Bibliography\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405596270935,"sku":"9780804776561","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804776561.jpg?v=1730492953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-for-the-empire-9780804776561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}