Browsing by Author "Gordon, Andrew"
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Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity
Gordon, Andrew D. (Oxford University Press, 2012) -
Credit in a Nation of Savers: The Growth of Consumer Borrowing in Japan
Gordon, Andrew D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) -
Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931
Orbach, Dan (2015-05-14)Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably ... -
E. P. Thompson, Politics and History: Writing Social History Fifty Years after The Making of the English Working Class
Batzell, Rudi; Beckert, Sven; Gordon, Andrew D.; Winant, Gabriel (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015) -
From the Brothel, to the Body: The Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920
Colbeck, Craig (2012-10-23)This dissertation argues that the Japanese debate over prostitution regulation between the 1870s and the 1910s saw a fundamental shift in the construction of male sexuality as a political tool. Before the turn of the century ... -
Irradiated Trajectories: Medical Radiology in Modern Japan
Loh, Shi Lin (2016-05-13)This dissertation examines the history of modern Japan via a study of rentogen, or X-rays, in medical practice. Conventional milestones in Japan’s encounters with nuclear science all date from 1945: the atomic bombings of ... -
Like Bamboo Shoots after the Rain
Gordon, Andrew D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) -
Like Bamboo Shoots After the Rain: The Growth of a Nation of Dressmakers and Consumers
Gordon, Andrew D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) -
Making Sense of the lost decades: Workplaces and schools, men and women, young and old, rich and poor
Gordon, Andrew D. (Routledge, 2015) -
\(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\) and the Politics of Democracy, Empire and Fascism in Prewar and Wartime Japan
von Loë, Stefano (2013-01-02)The subject of this dissertation is the life and career of \(Nakano Seig\bar{o}\), a Japanese journalist and politician born in Fukuoka-city on the southwestern island of \(Ky\bar{u}sh\bar{u}\) in 1886. Initially a liberal ... -
Orchestrating Modernity, Singing the Self: Theories of Music in Meiji and Taisho Japan
Service, Jonathan (2013-02-11)The purpose of this thesis is to use the history of music theory to study cultural change in Japan. It has been said that “music is number” (Sima Qian), that it is the “organon of philosophy” (Schelling), that the discovery ... -
Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Japan, 1925-1945
O'Reilly, Sean D. (2015-05-15)In this thesis I use historical films to construct a social history of Japan's tumultuous interwar and wartime periods. I analyze filmic depictions of the Bakumatsu period (1853-1868), Japan's rocky transition to modernity, ... -
Reply to J. Mark Ramseyer, "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics"
Gordon, Andrew; Eckert, Carter (2022-01-25)A reply to an article by Mark Ramseyer that rebuts our earlier criticism of his article "Contracting For Sex in the Pacific War." That article was published in March 2021 in the International Review of Law and Economics, ... -
Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks: Globalizing Western Knowledge, 1790-1895
Hsiung, Hansun (2016-05-18)This dissertation seeks to answer two overarching questions: what was “Western knowledge” in the nineteenth century, and how did it become a global knowledge form? I do so by sketching a transnational history of the networks ... -
Selling the American Way: The Singer Sales System in Japan, 1900-1938
Gordon, Andrew (Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009)From 1900 through the 1920s, Singer put in place its proven selling system in Japan, despite making remarkably little adjustment to local conditions, and with a fair degree of success. But the company was hurt in the long ... -
Statement by Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert concerning J. Mark Ramseyer, "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War"
Gordon, Andrew; Eckert, Carter (2021-02-17) -
The Two Pacific Wars: Visions of Order and Independence in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines, 1940-1945
Yellen, Jeremy Avrum (2013-03-08)This dissertation examines the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious attempt to create a new order in East Asia. Most studies on Japan’s new order focus on either the imperial center (Japan) or the ... -
Wartime Atrocities and the Politics of Treason in the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1953
Lawson, Konrad (2012-10-23)This dissertation explores the relationship between violence and betrayal in retribution against military and police collaborators who helped maintain Japan’s wartime occupations up until its defeat in 1945. Looking at the ...