Historian of Japan @durham_history. Author of One Hundred Million Philosophers (Hawai’i 2016). Work in progress on rumors, public opinion and political culture.
North East, England
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…
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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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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…
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Excellent piece be Andrew Liu: thenation.com/article/world/…
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Syllabus: Transnational Asian Thought (2021) pastandfuturepresents.blogsp…
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All of these Japan criticizing books from the late 80s and early 90s are like "Japan's not really a democracy, it's just an interlaced web of industrial cartels, a pliant media, and impotent politicians who do their bidding" and its like uh yeah how strange and exotic
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The Byker metro bridge was designed by Ove Arup, the man behind the likes of the Sydney Opera House.
Ove was born in 1895 at 16 Heaton Vale Terrace, just up the road from the bridge. His father was involved in live animal import, likely working in the Cattle Sanatorium.
Adam Bronson retweeted
If you're attending today's #EAJS2021 panel Japan in the Neoliberal World Order, make sure to check out CAP's virtual exhibit for Japanese Studies for a 30% discount on Nana Okura Gagné's new @CornellPress book Reworking Japan 📚
👉 combinedacademic.co.uk/japan…
Adam Bronson retweeted
Hurrah! My book, *Histories of Everyday Life*, is published with @OUPHistory @PastPresentSoc today
It's a history of British social history centred on mass education & women's roles in history making
If you're interested, there is a 30% discount code on the below flyer
Adam Bronson retweeted
"The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" out now with Cambridge University Press. Here's my overview of the argument in @jacobinmag:
jacobinmag.com/2020/10/welfa…
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Under Shinzō Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party waged a right-wing culture war and changed the terms of Japanese politics. The opposition will need to learn from his success to coalesce around a popular alternative, @APBrons writes.
dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
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「「科学技術」という日本語は、意外にも新しい言葉であり、1940年8月、総力戦のために科学技術を総動員した際に用いられ始めた言葉でした。」（加藤陽子・文、10月23日付、FCCJ記者会見の配布資料より）
加藤陽子の著作（お勧め）:『満州事変から日中戦争へ』（岩波新書）↓
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