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"Where We Can Battle for the Lord and Japan": The Development of Liberal Protestant Antiracism before World War II
Ist Teil von
The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.), 2013-09, Vol.100 (2), p.429-453
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Organization of American Historians
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
When the Young Men's Christian Association secretaries Galen Fisher and John Merle Davis arrived in Japan (in 1898 and 1905, respectively), they encountered a country that had changed dramatically since the late 1850s, when Japan had opened its ports to Christian missions. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s Meiji-era officials looked to western Europe and the US as models for modernization. Building ornate Romanesque buildings and modern factories, Western industrialists and foreign companies altered the urban landscape of Japan's largest cities. Such rapid change was not lost on Japanese entrepreneurs--zaibatsu-built factories, banks, and finance corporations soon paralleled the scale of Western enterprise. Japanese military industries provided the means necessary to launch two major wars in East Asia. Here, Griffith draws on historiographical insights to reexamine the role that liberal Protestant missionaries played in advancing and redefining American national identity during the early twentieth century.