A Brief History of Japanese Civilization: Student Text
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-618-91522-4 (ISBN)
Description
This compelling text explores the development of Japan through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through its economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of Japan.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-618-91522-4 (9780618915224)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. Beginnings and Foundations 1. The Prehistory of the Japanese Archipelago 2. The Early State: Chinese and Korean Influences Chinese and Korean Backgrounds The Emergence of the Early Japanese State II. Aristocrats, Monks, and Samurai 3. The Heian Period 4. The Kamakura Period in Japan 5. Muromachi Japan III. Early Modern/Late Traditional Japan 6. The Formation of a New Order Consolidation (1573-1600) Japan and Europe: First Encounters (1543-1630) 7. Tokugawa Shogunate IV. Japan and the Modern World 8. Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873 Late Tokugawa The Meiji Restoration 9. The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-1894 10. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931 Late Meiji (1895-1912) The Taisho Period (1912-1926) and the 1920s 11. Militarism and War 12. The New Japan The Occupation (1945-1952) The New Japan (1952-1989) From 1989 into the New Century