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Sheldon Garon's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Sheldon Garon is the Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies, professor of history, and professor of East Asian studies at Princeton University. He specialized in modern and contemporary Japanese history with interests also in transnational history and the history of ideas between Asia, Europe, and the United States. His prior research has also focused on the relationship between the state and society.

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Sheldon Garon's Published Works

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Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997) (371)
Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (1987) (314)
The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987) (137)
Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations (1994) (67)
Luxury is the Enemy: Mobilizing Savings and Popularizing Thrift in Wartime Japan (2000) (55)
Roundtable Discussion of Richard J. Samuels's Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (2003) (54)
From Meiji to Heisei: The State and Civil Society in Japan (2003) (47)
Japan in war and peace : selected essays (1995) (40)
Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves (2011) (36)
State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912-1945 (1986) (34)
The ambivalent consumer : questioning consumption in East Asia and the West (2006) (31)
The world's oldest debate? Prostitution and the state in imperial Japan, 1900-1945 (1993) (20)
Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage” (2017) (16)
State and family in modern Japan: a historical perspective (2010) (16)
Molding Japanese Minds (1998) (16)
The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan (1984) (13)
Japanese policies towards poverty and public assistance : a historical perspective (2002) (7)
Beyond Our Means (2011) (6)
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the United States Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War* (2020) (4)
Saving for 'My Own Good and the Good of the Nation': economic nationalism in modern Japan (2013) (4)
Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (1993) (4)
14 Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Thrift: Savings and Frugality Campaigns in Japan, 1900–1931 (2017) (3)
7. Japan: State, Society, and Collective Goods versus the Individual (2002) (2)
Parties, bureaucrats and labor policy in prewar Japan, 1918-1931 (1982) (2)
8. Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882–1940) and Great Britain (1870–1914) (2017) (2)
The evolution of civil society : from Meiji to Heisei (2002) (2)
The early Japanese labor movement (1983) (2)
Occupied Japan: Embracing Defeat orSurviving the Americans? (2001) (1)
State and Society in Interwar Japan (2000) (1)
Toward a History of Twentieth-Century Japan (1990) (1)
Japan: State and People in the Twentieth Century - Papers Presented at the Sticerd 20th Anniversary Symposium in July 1998 (1999) (1)
9.2 Writing transnational history through archival sources (2020) (1)
5. Saving for the New Japan (2011) (0)
10. Exporting Thrift, or the Myth of “Asian Values” (2011) (0)
CULTURES OF CREDIT: CONSUMER LENDING AND BORROWING IN MODERN ECONOMIES (2010) (0)
Five Things You'd Want to Know in Explaining Japan's Surrender in 1945 (2016) (0)
The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift (2017) (0)
Appendix 1: Industrial Strikes, 1897-1941 (2019) (0)
6. Mobilizing for the Great War (2011) (0)
National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (review) (2010) (0)
1. The Origins of Saving in the Western World (2011) (0)
Appendix 4: Occupational Background Of The Nonproletarian Parties, Lower House Representatives, 1920–30 (2019) (0)
From Sewing Machines to Credit Cards: Consumer Credit in 20th Century Japan (2006) (0)
THOMAS, J.E. Modern Japan. A Social History since 1868. Longman, London [etc.] 1996. xii, 340 pp. Ill. £42.00. (1998) (0)
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki (2022) (0)
Appendix 3: Strike-Related Arrests Under Article 17 Of The Police Regulations And Other Charges, 1914-26 (2019) (0)
Why America Spends While Japan and Europe Save (2012) (0)
4. The Politics Of Social Policy, 1924-29 (2019) (0)
Appendix 2: Cabinets And Ministers Related To Labor Policy, 1908-32 (2019) (0)
Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan . By Stephen S. Large. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. viii, 326 pp. Appendix, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $49.50. (1982) (0)
8. “Luxury is the Enemy”: Japan in Peace and War (2011) (0)
3. The Social Bureaucrats And The Integration Of Labor, 1918-27 (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2009) (0)
4. Japanese Traditions of Diligence and Thrift (2011) (0)
7. Save Now, Buy Later: World War II and Beyond (2011) (0)
1. The Origins Of Japanese Social Policy, 1868- 1918 (2019) (0)
Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan . By Sharon Minichiello. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. xi, 172 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $18. (1985) (0)
Michael Weiner. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan . [The Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series.] Routledge, London [etc.] 1994. xi, 278 pp. £37.50. (1996) (0)
Appendix 5: An Outline Of Labor Union Bills (2019) (0)
Abbreviations Used In The Notes (2019) (0)
12. Keep on Saving? Questions for the Twenty-first Century (2011) (0)
Why do Some Nations Save so Much and Others So Little? A Transnational History of Thrift (2005) (0)
2. A Crisis In Relations Between Labor And Capital, 1918-22 (2019) (0)
Note On Japanese Names (2019) (0)
6. The Statist Solution, 1931–45 (2019) (0)
5 State and Society in Interwar Japan (2000) (0)
3. America the Exceptional (2011) (0)
2. Organizing Thrift in the Age of Nation-States (2011) (0)
Epilogue: Legacies For Postwar Japan (2019) (0)
11. “There IS Money. Spend It”: America since 1945 (2011) (0)
9. Postwar Japan’s National Salvation (2011) (0)

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