123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Nationbuilding and Historiography in Meiji Japan

Nationbuilding and Historiography in Meiji Japan

AHA Session 148

Sunday, January 4, 2009: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM

New York Ballroom West (Sheraton New York)

Chair:

Peter N. Frost, University of Mississippi

Papers:

Between Local and National Historiography: The Mongol Invasions of 1274 and 1281 and their Reinterpretations in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Judith Fröhlich, University of Zurich

Making the Poster Boys of Aizu: The Unlikely Apotheosis of the White Tiger Brigade
Hiraku Shimoda, Vassar College

The Politics of Defense in Meiji Historiography: Nation–Building and Representations of Nagasaki's Early Modern Defense
Noell Wilson, University of Mississippi

Comment:

Daniel V. Botsman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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