Description
| Product ID: | 9781501748486 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
| Title: | The Fascist Effect |
| Subtitle: | Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 |
| Authors: | Author: Reto Hofmann |
| Page Count: | 222 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Asian history, History, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Asian history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Fascism & Nazism, Italy, Japan, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history and practice in Japan and beyond. Moving between personal experiences, diplomatic and cultural relations, and geopolitical considerations, Hofmann shows that interwar Japan found in fascism a resource to develop a new order at a time of capitalist crisis. Hofmann demonstrates that fascism in Japan was neither a European import nor a domestic product; it was, rather, the result of a complex process of global transmission and reformulation. Far from being a vague term, as postwar historiography has so often claimed, for Japanese of all backgrounds who came of age from the 1920s to the 1940s, fascism conjured up a set of concrete associations, including nationalism, leadership, economics, and a drive toward empire and a new world order. In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history and practice in Japan and beyond. Moving between personal experiences, diplomatic and cultural relations, and geopolitical considerations, Hofmann shows that interwar Japan found in fascism a resource to develop a new order at a time of capitalist crisis. Hofmann demonstrates that fascism in Japan was neither a European import nor a domestic product; it was, rather, the result of a complex process of global transmission and reformulation. Far from being a vague term, as postwar historiography has so often claimed, for Japanese of all backgrounds who came of age from the 1920s to the 1940s, fascism conjured up a set of concrete associations, including nationalism, leadership, economics, and a drive toward empire and a new world order. |
| Imprint Name: | Cornell University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cornell University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-15 |
