| Description |
xiv, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-370) and index. |
| Contents |
Crisis of the Tokugawa regime. The Tokugawa polity ; Social and economic transformations ; The intellectual world of late Tokugawa ; The overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Modern revolution, 1868-1905. The Samurai revolution ; Participation and protest ; Social, economic, and cultural transformations ; Empire and domestic order -- Imperial Japan from ascendance to ashes. Economy and society ; Democracy and empire between the world wars ; The depression crisis and responses ; Japan in wartime ; Occupied Japan: new departures and durable structures -- Postwar and contemporary Japan, 1952-2000. Economic and social transformations ; Political struggles and settlements of the high-growth era ; Global power in a polarized world: Japan in the 1980's ; Beyond the postwar era. |
| Summary |
This innovative new history of Japan highlights the connections between Japanese history and world history in general. |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- 1868-
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
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| ISBN |
0195110609 (cloth : alk paper) |
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0195110617 (pbk. : alk paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA331875 |
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