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"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.
'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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