| Description |
xvi, 871 p., [40] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [795]-840) and index. |
| Contents |
Seigahara -- Tokugawa state -- Foreign relations -- Status groups -- Urbanization and communications -- Development of a mass culture -- Education, though, and religion -- Change, protest, and reform -- Opening to the world -- Tokugawa fall -- Meiji revolution -- Building the meiji state -- Imperial Japan -- Meiji culture -- Japan between the wars -- Taisho culture and society -- China war -- Pacific war -- Yoshida years -- Japan since independence. |
| Summary |
A sweeping history of modern Japan begins in 1600 and retraces the three major upheavals in Japanese history that have helped shape it into a modern Asian nation. |
| Source |
Pritchett 4/2001 PPL |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
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Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
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| ISBN |
0674003349 (alk. paper) |
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9780674003347 (alk. paper) |
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