TY - BOOK AU - Hill,Christopher L. TI - National history and the world of nations: capital, state, and the rhetoric of history in Japan, France, and the United States T2 - Asia-Pacific SN - 0822343169 AV - D13 U1 - 320.54 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Durham, NC [u.a.] PB - Duke Univ. Press KW - Nationalism and historiography KW - Japan KW - France KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [283] - 328) and index; National history and the shape of the nineteenth-century world -- Spaces of history -- Liberal social imaginaries and the interiority of history -- The nationality of expansion -- Decline, renewal, and the rhetoric of will -- Times of crisis -- The rupture of Meiji and the new Japan -- Americanization and historical consciousness -- French Revolution, Third Republic -- Conclusion: National history and other worlds N2 - National history and the shape of the nineteenth-century world -- Spaces of history -- Liberal social imaginaries and the interiority of history -- The nationality of expansion -- Decline, renewal, and the rhetoric of will -- Times of crisis -- The rupture of Meiji and the new Japan -- Americanization and historical consciousness -- French Revolution, Third Republic -- Conclusion: National history and other worlds ER -