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The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) - Softcover

Hofmann, Reto

 
9781501748486: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501748483 ISBN 13: 9781501748486
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Reto Hofmann is Lecturer in Modern History at Monash University.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501748483
ISBN 13 
9781501748486
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
222