I have published books in English and German on the history of modern Japan. My two most recent books are:
1. Not by Love Alone: The Violin in Japan, 1850-2010 (Copenhagen: The Sound Book Press, 2014).
– available from Amazon and other major retailers; e-book from Kobo and Kindle, 日本のAMAZONからもご注文できます。キンドルもどうぞ
2. History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past. Second Edition with New Preface (Copenhagen: The Sound Book Press, 2017).
– available from Amazon and other major retailers; e-book from Kindle.
History and the State has been translated into Japanese:
『歴史と国家 － 19世紀日本のナショナル・アイデンティティと学問』
マーガレット メール 著千葉 功 訳者代表松沢 裕作 訳者代表。東京大学出版会 2017年。
– available from Tokyo University Press and Amazon Japan.
Currently, my main book project is another book on music in Japan. My ideas about what the main focus will be have changed several times.
For more information about this and my other writing projects, please see here.
Contact Margaret Mehl.