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Subject(s)

• Europe—Relations—East Asia [Browse]
• East Asia—Relations—Europe [Browse]
• Nationalism—Europe [Browse]
• Nationalism—East Asia [Browse]
• Collective memory—Europe [Browse]
• Collective memory—East Asia [Browse]
• Social change—Europe [Browse]
• Social change—East Asia [Browse]
• Europe—Politics and government [Browse]
• East Asia—Politics and government [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 66. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 66 [More in this series]

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• National pasts in Europe and East Asia
• The scale and pace of change recalled
• Available lessons : private memories and wider European agendas
• Europe : general crisis, collapse, and recovery
• Uncomfortable lessons : the European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008
• Reading the ongoing changes : European identity
• Sweeping change in East Asia : political leaders and the experience of violence
• East Asia : general crisis, collapse, and national development
• Contested compromises : national pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bangkok
• Japan/China : national pasts and the reordering of East Asia
• Europe and East Asia : intermingled pasts and changing identities
• Afterword: War is failure.

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ISBN

• 9780415561136 (hbk.)
• 0415561132 (hbk.)
• 9780203850022 (ebook)
• 0203850025 (ebook)

LCCN

2009050196

OCLC

377835894

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