Chivalry Without Women: The Way of the Samurai and Swinton's World History in 1890s Japan.
An American world history text—read, interpreted, and used in entirely unintended contexts—shaped what we now see as a quintessentially Japanese concept: the way of the samurai (bushidō). William Swinton's 1874 textbook, Outlines of the World's History , was widely read in Japan both in the original...
| Publicado en: | American Historical Review Vol. 129; no. 2; pp. 361 - 395 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2024
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