Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Quebec Society Through the Lens of the Small Nation -- Part II: Re-Examining Japan From a Small-Nation Perspective -- Part III: Diversity: Small Nations in Subnational Contexts -- Bibliography -- Part I Quebec Society Through the Lens of the Small Nation -- 1 A Small Nation in Search of Normalcy: Modern Quebec and Its Significant Others -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Small Nation - The Singular Other -- 1.3 The Colonised Society: The Alienated Other -- 1.4 The New Society - The Modernist Other -- 1.5 The New Nationalism - The Globalist Other -- 1.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 The Return From Europe and the Return From America as Heuristic Figures of the Small Nation in Quebec -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The "Return From Europe" -- 2.3 The "Return From America" -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 The Value of an Intercultural Citizenship Regime for Small Nations: The Case of Quebec -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What Is Interculturalism? Small Nations and Theories of Pluralism -- 3.3 An Intercultural Citizenship Regime -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Between Vulnerability and Adaptability: Rethinking Financial Interventionism in Quebec as a "Small Nation" -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Small Nation, Big Changes: An Overview of the International Context -- 4.3 Quebec Interventionism: Between Consolidation and Transformation -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Re-Examining Japan From a Small-Nation Perspective -- 5 Japan, a Small Nation Feigning to Be Something Greater: Redefining Universality With Special Reference to the Religious and the Secular and a Counter Intellectual History -- 5.1 Introduction: Reconsidering Japan as a Small Nation to Redefine Universality.

5.2 Premodern Japan as a Small Nation and Its Religious Aspects -- 5.3 Is Modern Japan's National Body Secular Or Religious Or Rather Confucian? -- 5.4 Oscillating Perception of Smallness/greatness and Critical Intellectual Genealogy of Seeing Japan as a Small Nation -- 5.4.1 Pre-War Period: From 1868 to 1945 -- 5.4.2 Post-War Period: Since 1945 -- 5.5 Conclusion: In Search of Universality From a Japan That Will Become a Small Nation -- Notes -- References -- 6 Imagining a Small Nation in an Empire: Kotoku Shusui and His "small-Nationism" -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Kotoku's Small-Nationism -- 6.2.1 The "Little England" Model -- 6.2.2 The Switzerland Model -- 6.2.3 Another Principle of Heiminsha -- 6.3 The Intellectual Sources of Kotoku's Small-Nationism -- 6.3.1 Nakae Chomin -- 6.3.2 The East Asian Tradition: Mencius -- 6.3.3 The Western European Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 The Foundational Violence of Sovereignty: The Racist Logic of "Rescuing" the Ainu -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Act of "Rescue" as Dispossession -- 7.3 Sovereignty and Sekishi -- 7.4 "Terra Nullius:" The Logic of Dispossession and Occupation -- 7.5 The Logic and Reality of "Rescue" -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8 Inventing "Independence": A Short Intellectual History of Post-War Okinawa -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The US Military Occupation and the Thirst for the Right to Self-Determination in the Early Years of Military Rule After 1945 -- 8.3 Opposition to the Separation Policy and the Desire for the Reversion: Various Aspects of Identity in Okinawa -- 8.4 Scepticism About "Reversion": The Wavering Ethnic Consciousness -- 8.5 The "Anti-Reversion Theory" as an Attempt to Overcome the Nation-State -- 8.6 Conclusion: "Independence" as a Constituent Power -- Notes.

Bibliography -- Part III Diversity: Small Nations in Subnational Contexts -- 9 Small Nations, Empires and the Commonwealth: Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon in Global Perspective -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 "Bigness Bias" and Visions of "A Federated Future" -- 9.3 Quebec -- 9.4 Newfoundland -- 9.5 Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon -- 9.6 The British Empire, the Commonwealth, States and Nations -- 9.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 10 Philosophy in Hong Kong After 1949: Tang Chun-I, Lao Sze-Kwang and Cheung Chan-Fai -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Tang Chun-I -- 10.3 Lao Sze Kwang -- 10.4 Cheung Chan-Fai -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 "The Other America" and the Quest for Economic Justice: Race, Gender and the Struggle Over Guaranteed Income in the Late 20th Century United States -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.1.1 Social Policy as a Battleground Over Citizenship -- 11.1.2 The Rediscovery of "The Other America" -- 11.2 Struggles Over Clothing, Food and Housing -- 11.3 Contestations Over Guaranteed Income -- 11.4 Divergence Over the Family Assistance Plan -- 11.5 From "Up the Nixon Plan!" to "Down With FAP!": The NWRO and the Family Assistance Plan -- 11.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 People Or Nation?: East European Jews' Struggle Over Their Categorisation Before the Holocaust -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Variation in Jewish Collective Movements -- 12.3 Zionists' "Nation" -- 12.3.1 Improvement in the Jewish Status -- 12.3.2 Demonstration of the Unity of Jews as a Political Entity -- 12.3.3 Guarantee of Neutrality Within the Multi-Ethnic Environment -- 12.3.4 Securing a Free Space for Jews -- 12.4 Is "Nation" Jewish? -- 12.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Epilogue: Size Matters: Small Nations' Existential Pursuits of Power, Happiness and Purpose -- A Sisyphean Model of Small Nations.

Frailty and Power -- Fatalism and Happiness -- Futility and Purpose -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.