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Andrew Gordon (historian)





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Andrew Gordon is an American japanologist who is a scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University and former chair of the Department of History there from 2004 to 2007. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1998 through 2004.[1]

Andrew Gordon
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Japanese Studies
InstitutionsHarvard University
Duke University

Andrew Gordon completed his PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1981. Following the completion of his graduate studies he has taught history at both Duke University and at Harvard. He is one of the leading experts on Japanese labor history but has lately shifted to other fields. Gordon's 2003 A Modern History of Japan is now one of the standard textbooks on the topic and has been translated into Japanese. A revised edition of the work was released in 2009. Gordon has more recently been engaged in research on the history of the sewing machine and the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan.

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In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Andrew Gordon, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30 works in 90+ publications in five languages and 6,000+ library holdings.[2]

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  1. ^ Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS), Director, 1998-2004
  • ^ WorldCat Identities Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine: Gordon, Andrew 1952-  

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