The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

Christopher Benfey

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nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to "Old Japan," with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for ba...

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