The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375754555ISBN-10:375754555UPC:9780375754555Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, United StatesBook Topic:Japan, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Size:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCTYHQ7QJC
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375754555ISBN-10:375754555UPC:9780375754555Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, United StatesBook Topic:Japan, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Size:8.02 x 5.32 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCTYHQ7QJC
Christopher Benfey teaches literature at Mount Holyoke College, where he is co-director of the Weissman Center for Leadership. Benfey is the author of Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others, The Double Life of Stephen Crane, and Degas in New Orleans. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
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