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Transformations of Total War Reminder: Film screening of Soldiers and Chocolate TONIGHT! Wed. March 31 7 pm CGIS 020 (our regular classroom)
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Recap: Emergence of parliamentary democracy (imperial democracy) into 1920s New social tensions, 1920s-1930s Increased international tensions Heightened anxiety over nature of modernity ->Issues in expansion of empire, mobilization at home, to break the “impasse”
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Japan Germany Italy Monarchy Holo- caust Mass party, Charismatic leader Church Fascism: One strategy for comparative analysis At the intersection: the “fascist minimum” Sense of social crisis Latecomer international aspirations denied Glorified national body and race Anti-democratic Anti-capitalist rhetoric, but not full state control: state-managed capitalism Autarchic empire Aggressive foreign policy war Pope, Emperor
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Mobilizing for Total War Suspicion of competition, control of industry Promotion of cartels: Important Industries Control Law, 1931 Increased central planning, 1936-7: Cabinet Planning Board National General Mobilization Law: 1938 Allows measures to “control material and human resources” WITHOUT legislative approval The peak measure of state power
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Programs of the New Order: 1938-40 Political New Order Prince Konoe advisors’ concept of mass party Outcome: Imperial Rule Assistance Association: 1940 Economic New Order Builds on “rationalizing” steps since late ’20s Culminates in “Control Associations” of 1940 Labor New Order Modeled on Nazi Labor Front Industrial Patriotic Service Association, 1940
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Transwar trends in political economy and society Industrial policy Three iterations: “self-control” circa early 1930s State control: 1940 Control Associations Postwar MITI: gets the state-private mix right? Labor Organization Wartime controls codify seniority wages Patriotic Associations feed into inclusive employee unions Agrarian Reform Further weaken landlords, strengthen tenants
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Statist modernity: contradictions Tension between new and old roles for women
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Statist modernity: Contradictions Tension between new and old roles for women
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Overcoming Modernity Anti- modernism and its limits
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Overcoming Modernity
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Overcoming modernity Anti-modernism and its limits
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Japan Germany Italy Monarchy Holo- caust Mass party, Charismatic leader Church Fascism: One strategy for comparative analysis At the intersection: the “fascist minimum” Sense of social crisis Latecomer international aspirations denied Glorified national body and race Anti-democratic Anti-capitalist rhetoric, but not full state control: state-managed capitalism Autarchic empire Aggressive foreign policy war Pope, Emperor
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