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Author Jansen, Marius B., author.

Title The making of modern Japan / Marius B. Jansen
Edition 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 871 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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 War19. The Yoshida Years -- 20. Japan since Independence -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Credits -- Index
Summary An account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to 2000. This book analyzes the making of the modern state, a time which saw three periods of major social change: the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society; the opening of Japanese ports; and defeat in World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 795-840) and index
Notes Third printing, 2002
Print version record
Subject HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674039100
0674039106