Before the Nation
ISBN: 9780822384908
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Kokugaku.;

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."


Susan L. Burns is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

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