Andrew Gordon <br/><br/>
Postwar Japan as history /  
Andrew Gordon 
 - Berkeley:  University of California Press,   c1993 
 - xii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 23cm 
<br/><br/>Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict, John W. Dower Japan's Position in the World System, Bruce Cumings The Past in the Present, Carol Gluck Defining Growth: Debates on Economic Strategies, Laura E. Hein The Structure and Transformation of Conservative Rule, Gary D. Allinson Negotiating Social Contracts, Sheldon Garon and Mike Mochizuki Dialectics of Economic Growth, National Power, and Distributive Struggles Koji Taira Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Transpositions of Everyday Life, William Kelly Formations of Mass Culture, Marilyn Ivy Consuming and Saving, Charles Yuji Horioka The Death of "Good Wife, Wise Mother", Kathleen S. Uno Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place, Frank K. Upham Altered States: The Body Politics of "Being Woman", Sandra Buckley Contests for the Workplace, Andrew Gordon Intellectuals and Politics, J. Victor Koschmann The Dynamics of Political Opposition, James W. White 
<br/><br/> As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. --From publisher's description 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520074750 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>History--Japan<br/>Japan History 1945-<br/>Social conditions
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 952.04 P84