Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian in) (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute)

by Louise Young (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $78.12

  In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide ranging social, cultural, economic, and political transformations. This title looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute the city took their characteristic modern shape.