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- catalog abstract ""New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time - the reckoning of time - during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment - a process whose analysis carries implications for other non-Western societies as well." "By examining topics ranging from geology, ghosts, childhood, art history, and architecture to nature as a whole, Stefan Tanaka explores how changing conceptions of time destabilized inherited knowledge and practices and ultimately facilitated the reconfiguration of the archipelago's heterogeneous communities into the liberal-capitalist nation-state, Japan. However, this revolutionary transformation - where, in the words of Lewis Mumford, "the clock, not the steam engine," is the key mechanism of the industrial age - has received little more than a footnote in the history of Japan." "This book's focus on time not only shifts attention away from debates about the failure (or success) of "modernization" toward how individuals interact with the overlay of abstract concepts upon their lives; it also illuminates the roles of history as discourse and as practice in this reconfiguration of society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13296233.
- catalog coverage "Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time - the reckoning of time - during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment - a process whose analysis carries implications for other non-Western societies as well." "By examining topics ranging from geology, ghosts, childhood, art history, and architecture to nature as a whole, Stefan Tanaka explores how changing conceptions of time destabilized inherited knowledge and practices and ultimately facilitated the reconfiguration of the archipelago's heterogeneous communities into the liberal-capitalist nation-state, Japan. However, this revolutionary transformation - where, in the words of Lewis Mumford, "the clock, not the steam engine," is the key mechanism of the industrial age - has received little more than a footnote in the history of Japan." "This book's focus on time not only shifts attention away from debates about the failure (or success) of "modernization" toward how individuals interact with the overlay of abstract concepts upon their lives; it also illuminates the roles of history as discourse and as practice in this reconfiguration of society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.".
- catalog description "Time, pasts, history -- Discovery of pasts -- "Nothing is the way it should be" -- Naturalization of nation : essential time -- Naturalization of nation : chronological time -- Socialization of society -- Socialization of nature : museumification.".
- catalog extent "x, 225 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691117748 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912.".
- catalog subject "952.03/1 22".
- catalog subject "DS882 .T336 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Time, pasts, history -- Discovery of pasts -- "Nothing is the way it should be" -- Naturalization of nation : essential time -- Naturalization of nation : chronological time -- Socialization of society -- Socialization of nature : museumification.".
- catalog title "New times in modern Japan / Stefan Tanaka.".
- catalog type "text".