Harry Harootunian | |
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 Harry Harootunian in 2016 | |
| Born | 1929 (age 94–95) |
| Education | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Wayne State University |
| School | Critical theory, area studies, cultural studies |
| Institutions | University of Rochester University of Chicago University of California, Santa Cruz New York University |
Harry D. Harootunian (born 1929) is an Armenian-American historian of early modern and modern Japan with an interest in historical theory.[1] He is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, New York University, and Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilizations, Emeritus, University of Chicago.
Harootunian edited volumes on 20th-century politics in Japan, but is best known for a series of wide-ranging monographs on the development of Japanese social and intellectual thought from late Tokugawa period through the middle of the 20th century.
- ^ Yildirim, Halis (2019-12-07). "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
I had the sense, as I still do, that being Armenian meant belonging to a reviled race that derived from the brutal socialization of 500 years of Ottoman oppression, matched only by the Irish under British rule.