National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States - Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, this work reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. It also analyzes the rhetoric, narrative form, and intellectual genealogy of late-nineteenth-century texts.