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Author Mizuno, Hiromi, 1969-

Title Science for the empire : scientific nationalism in modern Japan / Hiromi Mizuno
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Contents Technocracy. Toward technocracy -- Technocratic vision for a scientific empire -- Marxism. Incomplete modernity and the problem of science -- Mapping Marxism onto the politics of the scientific -- Constructing the scientific Japanese tradition -- Popular science. The mobilization of wonder
Summary An innovative look at Japan's wartime discourse of science and nationalism and how it shaped postwar Japan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-251) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Science and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Imperialism and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Religion and science -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
SCIENCE -- History.
Imperialism and science
Nationalism and science
Politics and government
Religion and science
Science and state
SUBJECT Japan -- Politics and government -- 1926-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069554
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804769846
0804769842