Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in AmericaLexington Books, 2004 - 163 pàgines 'Mori notes, 'Where men think that they know everything, and boast of their superior wisdom, the presumption is that they have yet much to learn.' . . . [T]oday's readers, whether in the United States, in Japan, or elsewhere, who may think they already know so much about the subject, will find much of value in Life and Resources in America.' --Akira Iriye, Harvard University, from the foreword Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America was written by the young, educated ex-samurai the Japanese government selected as its first diplomatic representative in the United States. Originally published in English in Washington, D.C., in 1871, this book sheds much light on the shape of an American society, government, and economy recovering from the Civil War. Like earlier philosopher-tourists such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau, Mori understands the United States as a stage upon which an important experiment in democracy, pluralism, and liberalism is unfolding. Life and Resources in America is distinct for its view from the Reconstruction period and by a non-European observer. Historian John E. Van Sant has annotated and lightly edited this uniquely illuminating text, making it readily accessible to the contemporary audience it deserves. |
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Pàgina x
... Christian doctrine that the majority of the American people profess and their actual conduct . Tocque- ville's stress on private associations as a key to American democracy is echoed in Mori's fascination with YMCA and other religious ...
... Christian doctrine that the majority of the American people profess and their actual conduct . Tocque- ville's stress on private associations as a key to American democracy is echoed in Mori's fascination with YMCA and other religious ...
Pàgina xviii
... Christian- ity and of Peter the Great , who had transformed Russia more than 100 years earlier by adopting reforms based on Western methods . By the spring of 1867 , the lack of money was becoming a major problem for these Japanese ...
... Christian- ity and of Peter the Great , who had transformed Russia more than 100 years earlier by adopting reforms based on Western methods . By the spring of 1867 , the lack of money was becoming a major problem for these Japanese ...
Pàgina xix
... Christian love and devotion was the process to at- tain a peaceful , even " perfect " life of complete harmony . It ... Christianity from a letter he and Sameshima composed as they were leav- ing the Brotherhood of the New Life : " We ...
... Christian love and devotion was the process to at- tain a peaceful , even " perfect " life of complete harmony . It ... Christianity from a letter he and Sameshima composed as they were leav- ing the Brotherhood of the New Life : " We ...
Pàgina xxvi
... Christianity since the early seventeenth century , and this prohibition was reemphasized soon after the new Meiji gov- ernment was established in 1868 : The Christian religion being strictly prohibited by the law of the empire , the vi ...
... Christianity since the early seventeenth century , and this prohibition was reemphasized soon after the new Meiji gov- ernment was established in 1868 : The Christian religion being strictly prohibited by the law of the empire , the vi ...
Pàgina xxvii
... Christian nations were civilized na- tions , and vice versa . The Japanese government , of course , was not about to adopt Christianity as its national religion no matter how desperately it wanted to enhance the country's strength ...
... Christian nations were civilized na- tions , and vice versa . The Japanese government , of course , was not about to adopt Christianity as its national religion no matter how desperately it wanted to enhance the country's strength ...
Continguts
Official and Political Life | 5 |
Life among the Farmers and Planters | 15 |
Commercial Life and Developments | 31 |
Life among the Mechanics | 43 |
Religious Life and Institutions | 51 |
Life in the Factories | 69 |
Educational Life and Institutions | 81 |
Literary Artistic and Scientific Life | 93 |
Life in the Leading Cities | 119 |
Frontier Life and Developments | 129 |
Judicial Life | 135 |
Final Thoughts on America1 | 139 |
Religious Freedom in Japan | 141 |
The Religious Charter of the Empire of Dai Nippon | 149 |
Selected Bibliography | 151 |
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