Historian of Japan @durham_history. Author of One Hundred Million Philosophers (Hawai’i 2016). Work in progress on rumors, public opinion and political culture.
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Joined January 2014
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We are living through a collision of economic trajectories set in motion forty years ago: Xi Jinping’s attachment to export-driven industrialization, pitted against Trump’s decades-long fixation on protectionist tariffs. nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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Delighted to announce that my article 'Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868' is now published Open Access!
Featuring confused geographers and lots of maps of Japan: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
This was fun
NEW: The best Japanese history books, recommended by @APBrons of @durham_history:
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Louise Young examines four different versions of "presentism" in her article in MIH on "Past and Present in Japanese Historiography: Four Versions of Presentism" cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Powerful thread.
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Timothy Yang's @UGAHistory book *A Medicated Empire* @CornellPress is the 2022 @TheBHCNews @TheHagleyCenter Prize in #bizhis
Congratulations! 👏📗
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recs for intellectual history of cybernetics? like menand on the pragmatists or jay on the frankfurt school? this looks pretty good
mitpress.mit.edu/books/cyber…
“The remnants of past life – what is left of buildings, tools, the contents of graves – are weather-beaten by the storms of time that have swept over them, whereas a written tradition, once deciphered and read, is such… a pure mind that it speaks to us as if in the present.”
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Feeling powerful Tocquevillian vibes from this poster for a town council budgetary committee meeting in Takasu, Hokkaido.
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Excellent piece be Andrew Liu: thenation.com/article/world/…
This looks awesome.
1. I have a new article in Humanity on the relationship between Friedrich Hayek and Raymond Aron. Tries to explain the similarities and differences between neoliberals and Cold War liberals, which led to a relationship of convenience that remains today: muse.jhu.edu/article/845681
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The relevance of 版籍奉還 in the age of robber barons (with apologies to recently deceased robber barons). hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.3901…
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Syllabus: Transnational Asian Thought (2021) pastandfuturepresents.blogsp…