Interpellating children as imperial subjects: a content analysis of government-produced moral education textbooks (1903–1942).
The Meiji Restoration (1868) ended the Tokugawa Shogunate regime (1603–1867) and proclaimed the emperor as the supreme power of Japan. The Meiji emperor's reign began abruptly, requiring restoration leaders to construct an emperor-centred ideology of whole cloth. This ideology posited an eternal imp...
| Publicado en: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 708 - 726 |
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