[PDF.45oy] The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

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 | #827338 in Books |  Christopher E G Benfey |  2004-08-10 |  2004-08-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.70 x5.30l,.58 | File type: PDF | 332 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A History of Boston's Interactions with Japan|By Greg Polansky|In the 21st century, Boston is not exactly a global city that people think about other than for colleges and maybe healthcare. But in the 19th century, Boston was one of the foremost cities in the United States due to the importance of maritime trade and Boston's role in whaling and trade. So this history is really|From Publishers Weekly|The quests for spiritual fulfillment of the figures profiled here unfold in extraordinary ways. Disaffected by the mercenary state of American culture in the Gilded Age following the Civil War, many of New England's intellectual elite soug

When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying to reinvent itself as a more cosmopolitan, modern state, ultimately transforming itself, in the course of twenty-five years, from a feudal backwater to an internati...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan   |  Christopher Benfey. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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