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Friday, October 20, 2017
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Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College, OxfordA seminar with Sheldon Garon, Princeton University.
Transnational History and Japan's "Comparative Advantage" Professor Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
Friday 20 October, 5.30pm Pavilion Room, St Antony's College, Oxford
Based on his recent essay in Journal of Japanese Studies, Garon suggests ways in which historians of modern Japan might contribute to transnational history, taking advantage of their Japanese subjects鈥� determined emulation of other nations鈥� ideas and practices. Thinking transnationally about Japan not only challenges myths of Japanese exceptionalism, but also enriches transnational history by going beyond Eurocentric and U.S.-centered accounts to illuminate global currents. To demonstrate the benefits, he draws on several transnational studies plus his global history of saving money and his current research on the 鈥渢ransnational home front.鈥�
Sheldon Garon is Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. A specialist in modern Japanese history, he also writes transnational history that charts the flow of ideas and institutions between Asia, Europe, and the United States—notably Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2012). His current project is a transnational history of 鈥渉ome fronts鈥� in Japan, Germany, and Britain in World War II, focusing on aerial bombardment, food insecurity, and civilian 鈥渕orale.鈥� Previous publications include Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) and The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987), and he coedited The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (2006).
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Japanese History Workshop, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, and Oxford Centre for Global History
Claire Phillips Network Facilitator 'Global Nodes, Global Orders' Leverhulme International Network Project Administrator 鈥楥omparing the Copperbelt鈥� ERC Project Oxford Centre for Global History
History Faculty, University of Oxford George St, Oxford OX1 2RL Tel: +44 (0)1865 615027 claire.phillips@history.ox.ac.uk
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