Background
Howell, David Luke was born on November 2, 1959 in Fukuoka, Japan. Son of Richard Wesley and Jacqueline Louise Howell.
( Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal ...)
Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Japan's reopening to the West to probe the indigenous origins of Japanese capitalism.
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( In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath...)
In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explicitly superficial customs—hairstyle, clothing, and personal names— served to distinguish the "civilized" realm of the Japanese from the "barbarian" realm of the Ainu in the Tokugawa era. Within the core polity, moreover, these same customs distinguished members of different social status groups from one another, such as samurai warriors from commoners, and commoners from outcasts.
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Howell, David Luke was born on November 2, 1959 in Fukuoka, Japan. Son of Richard Wesley and Jacqueline Louise Howell.
Bachelor, University Hawaii, Hilo, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1989.
Assistant professor University Texas, Austin, 1989—1992. Professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, since 1993, chairman department East Asian studies, since 2005.
( Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal ...)
( In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath...)
Member of American History Association, Association Asian Studies (chairman North-East Asia council 2002-2005, board directors 2004-2005).
Married Koko Fujita, February 26, 1984. Children: Isaac Soh, Momoko Emma.
