Background
Duus, Peter was born on December 27, 1933 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Hans Christian and Mary Anita (Pennypacker) Duus.
(The history of Japan's rise to prominence over the past h...)
The history of Japan's rise to prominence over the past hundred years, first as an aggressively Westernizing Asian nation, then as a major imperialist power, and finally as a postwar economic giant. 296 pages w/Chapter Notes and Index. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Houghton Mifflin Company Publishers, Boston, MA 1976.
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(This book offers a systematic comparison between Japanese...)
This book offers a systematic comparison between Japanese and Western political institutions in the premodern period. It offers a brief discussion of the meaning and significance of the term Feudalism, and it suggests ways in which the term might be used for explorations in comparative history. Because of its brevity, it can be used as one of many paper backs in the premodern Japanese history course, or as background reading for courses on modern Japanese history and modern Japanese politics. Given its comparative approach, it can also be used as supplement in Western or world civilization course.
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( What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first ...)
What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism" shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians.
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Duus, Peter was born on December 27, 1933 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of Hans Christian and Mary Anita (Pennypacker) Duus.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1959.
Assistant professor of history, Washington University, St. Louis, 1964-1966; assistant professor of history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966-1970; associate professor of history, Claremont (California) Graduate School, 1970-1973; associate professor of history, Stanford (California) U., 1973-1978; professor, Stanford (California) U., since 1978.
( What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first ...)
(The history of Japan's rise to prominence over the past h...)
(This book offers a systematic comparison between Japanese...)
(Occasional light pencil marks otherwise a very good copy....)
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Executive secretary Inter-University for Japanese Language Studies, Tokyo, 1974-1990. Board directors Committee for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, 1987-1991. Served with United States Army, 1955-1957.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, member Association for Asian Studies (board directors 1972-1975, nominating committee 1983, vice president 1999-2000, president 2000-2001), American History Association (board editors 1984-1987).
Married Masayo Umezawa, November 25, 1964. 1 child, Erik.