The Making of Modern Japan
Published on 1. July 2009
931 pages
978-0-674-03910-0 (ISBN)
Description
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-03910-0 (9780674039100)
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Marius B. Jansen
The Making of Modern Japan
Book
10/2002
The Belknap Press
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Person
Marius B. Jansen was Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University. He was the author of Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration.
Content
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Note on Names and Romanization 1. Sekigahara 2.The Tokugawa State 3. Foreign Relations 4. Status Groups 5. Urbanization and Communications 6. The Development of a Mass Culture 7. Education, Thought, and Religion 8. Change, Protest, and Reform 9. The Opening to the World 10. The Tokugawa Fall 11. The Meiji Revolution 12. Building the Meiji State 13. Imperial Japan 14. Meiji Culture 15. Japan between the Wars 16. Taisho Culture and Society 17. The China War 18. The Pacific War 19. The Yoshida Years 20. Japan since Independence Further Reading Notes Credits Index
