'Japan's Emergence as a modern State' established Norman as the preeminent Western scholar of modern Japan. Translated into japanese in 1947, it had a reciprocal influence upon postwar japanese historiography. In 1949 he published a study of an ally unknown, iconoclastic eighteenth-century intellectual, Ando sh6ehi.
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John Dower - EH Norman, Japan, And the Uses of History
'Japan's Emergence as a modern State' established Norman as the preeminent Western scholar of modern Japan. Translated into japanese in 1947, it had a reciprocal influence upon postwar japanese historiography. In 1949 he published a study of an ally unknown, iconoclastic eighteenth-century intellectual, Ando sh6ehi.
'Japan's Emergence as a modern State' established Norman as the preeminent Western scholar of modern Japan. Translated into japanese in 1947, it had a reciprocal influence upon postwar japanese historiography. In 1949 he published a study of an ally unknown, iconoclastic eighteenth-century intellectual, Ando sh6ehi.