9781108481946-1108481949-Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace

Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace

ISBN-13: 9781108481946
ISBN-10: 1108481949
Author: Oleg Benesch, Ran Zwigenberg
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 374 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781108481946
ISBN-10: 1108481949
Author: Oleg Benesch, Ran Zwigenberg
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 374 pages

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Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (ISBN-13: 9781108481946 and ISBN-10: 1108481949), written by authors Oleg Benesch, Ran Zwigenberg, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Japan (Asian History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Japan books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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An innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture competing versions of the pre-imperial past and project possibilities for Japan's future. Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg argue that Japan's modern transformations can be traced through its castles. They examine how castle preservation and reconstruction campaigns served as symbolic ways to assert particular views of the past and were crucial in the making of an idealized premodern history. Castles have been used to craft identities, to create and erase memories, and to symbolically join tradition and modernity. Until 1945, they served as physical and symbolic links between the modern military and the nation's premodern martial heritage. After 1945, castles were cleansed of military elements and transformed into public cultural spaces that celebrated both modernity and the pre-imperial past. What were once signs of military power have become symbols of Japan's idealized peaceful past.

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