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Machiavelli's Children : Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan / Richard J. Samuels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (480 p.) : 22 halftones, 2 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501720307
  • 9781501720291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.3/4/094509034 21
LOC classification:
  • JN5345
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: LEADERS MATTER -- Introduction: WHY LEADERS MATTER -- PART I. CREATION STORIES: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- PART ll. LIBERAL EXHAUSTION: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- PART III. IN THE AMERICAN IMPERIUM: THE COLD WAR -- PART IV. DEGREES OF FREEDOM: AFTER THE COLD WAR -- Conclusion: How LEADERS HAVE MATTERED IN ITALY AND JAPAN -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan. Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies. Highlights of Machiavelli's Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics-using American money and Manchukuo connections-and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal.The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi's regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintar on the contemporary right in each country.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: LEADERS MATTER -- Introduction: WHY LEADERS MATTER -- PART I. CREATION STORIES: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- PART ll. LIBERAL EXHAUSTION: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- PART III. IN THE AMERICAN IMPERIUM: THE COLD WAR -- PART IV. DEGREES OF FREEDOM: AFTER THE COLD WAR -- Conclusion: How LEADERS HAVE MATTERED IN ITALY AND JAPAN -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan. Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism, the coming of fascism, imperial adventures, defeat in wartime, and reconstruction as American allies. Highlights of Machiavelli's Children include new accounts of the making of postwar Japanese politics-using American money and Manchukuo connections-and of the collapse of Italian political parties in the Clean Hands (Mani Pulite) scandal.The author also tells the more recent stories of Umberto Bossi's regional experiment, the Lega Nord, the different choices made by Italian and Japanese communist party leaders after the collapse of the USSR, and the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and Ishihara Shintar on the contemporary right in each country.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)