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About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.


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TL;DR: In the early I6oo's, the military ruler of Japan sealed off the country to all foreign influences except a minute trickle in the south as mentioned in this paper, which brought with it an unsurpassed period of internal peace, that the foundation for a Japanese indigenous system of education was established.
Abstract: The modern history of Asia is inextricable related to colonialism. Nearly the whole triangular area from Pakistan to Korea to Indonesia came under the colonial aegis of Western powers up until the World War II period. The two major exceptions were Thailand and Japan, with Japan herself ruling as an Asian colonial power over Korea and Taiwan. During the colonial period, the Western rulers pre-empted educational control in their Asian territories establishing, in varying degrees, two types of education. One type was patterned directly after education in the motherland for the children of the colonialists and a select number of local youth, using a European language. The second was a more indigenous system involving a terminal elementary schooling for a minority of native children, using a local language. By and large, the masses were neglected, perpetuating the broad foundation of Asian illiteracy. Japan experienced a diametrically opposite historical development. In the early I6oo's the military ruler of Japan sealed off the country to all foreign influences except a minute trickle in the south. She became virtually isolated from the rest of the world for a period of nearly 250 years. It was during this Tokugawa military period which, paradoxically, brought with it an unsurpassed period of internal peace, that the foundation for a Japanese indigenous system of education was established. The governmental promulgation both of military and literary arts stimulated the spread of literacy in a milieu relatively secure from Western colonial expansionism spreading through Asia. The growth of education during the Tokugawa period, while the rest of Asia was being divided up under the hegemony of European 'barbarians', is a fascinating story indeed. Recent publications evidence the extent of the proliferation of education for the common Japanese people during this period of national isolation. ()1 From the findings, it is manifest that a considerably higher percentage of the population in Japan attended schools and could read and write a hundred and fifty years ago than is seen in many Asian countries today. For example, in Tokugawa Japan, "the samurai class (warrior) was highly literate, and even for commoners, it is generally agreed that about 40-50 per cent of the male

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TL;DR: The Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War faced profound problems in finding textbooks that could assist in the work of social reconstruction as discussed by the authors, and history instruction especially had been deliberately distorted to subserve the purposes of the National Socialist party.
Abstract: The Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War faced profound problems in finding textbooks that could assist in the work of social reconstruction. The Nazis left Germany a legacy of propagandistic education. History instruction especially had been deliberately distorted to subserve the purposes of the National Socialist party. Education had been controlled by the central government, and the Ministries of Education of the individual states of Germany during the Hitler years functioned mainly to implement the authoritarian decrees of the central Ministry of Education.' German education from 1933 to 1945 was designed to undermine international agreements and create attitudes in pupils inimical to international friendship. History was falsified to support nationalistic dogma. The Hitler regime imposed upon education anti-semitism, the theories of SuperAryanism, required censorship of those facts and materials that were contradictory to the Nazi program and coercively demanded instruction of all that promoted Nazi ideas, national ambitions, and German expansionism.

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13 Jun 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the problem of the October Revolution and revolution as such in its historical, ideological and philosophical aspects, and the unity of all three aspects and their mutual permeation is reflected in the question how the event of the revolution is inscribed into the history of the 20th century, considering that the latter was largely written by this event itself.
Abstract: The paper addresses the problem of the October Revolution and revolution as such in its historical, ideological and philosophical aspects. The unity of all three aspects and their mutual permeation is reflected in the question how the event of the October Revolution is inscribed into the history of the 20th century, considering that the latter was largely written by this event itself. Being more than just an intra-historical event, revolution presupposes the transformation of history. Thus one needs to ask: What enables a self-transforming history? There is no supernatural force involved: it is rather that the subjectivity of society perceives history and the whole world as space for its own expansion and participation in power. In the context of world history as a self-establishing social power, even communism finally proves to be what it allegedly fights against: world imperialism. The thesis is based on Ivo Urbancic’s essay from 1971, ‘Lenin’s philosophy’ or Imperialism, and on recent discussions about the possibility of revolution today, which is mentioned in the last part of the article. The rampant imperial expansionism of society as subjectivity must give us pause with the question how there can persist a hope in the meaningfulness of humanity. Does anyone dare to offer resistance, perhaps to launch a revolution?

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TL;DR: The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition relied on female bodies and beauty to solidify the city's and state's imperial claims as mentioned in this paper, and used women's bodies to advertise the city, fair, and state at the same time amusement concessions displayed them in ways that reaffirmed racial hierarchies.
Abstract: San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition relied on female bodies and beauty to solidify the city’s and state’s imperial claims. Publicists and exhibitors used women’s bodies to advertise the city, fair, and state at the same time amusement concessions displayed them in ways that reaffirmed racial hierarchies. In a reflection of the expansion of white women’s claims to public space, the fair’s Woman’s Board worked to make the fair safe for unaccompanied women and affirmed their status vis-a-vis nonwhite women. Economic interests and changing gender ideals intertwined to expand white women’s public presence at the exposition while simultaneously celebrating American expansionism and the contemporary racial hierarchy.

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YearPapers
202374
2022172
202126
202038
201928
201835