| Description |
xxviii,591 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Greenwich readers ; 9 |
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Greenwich readers ; 9
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| Contents |
Introduction: Japanese Society and History -- A Chronological Overview of Modern Japanese History -- Japanese Emperors of the Modern Era -- A Glossary of Japanese Terms -- 1. Japanese Feudalism / Perry Anderson -- 2. The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan / Thomas C. Smith -- 3. Pre-modern Economic Growth: Japan and the West / Thomas C. Smith -- 4. Japan's Aristocratic Revolution / Thomas C. Smith -- 5. The Meiji State: 1868-1912 / Marius B. Jansen -- 6. Japan and China in Theories of Development and Underdevelopment / Frances Moulder -- 7. Economy and Social Classes in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan / Frances Moulder -- 8. Japan's Emergence as a Modern State / E. H. Norman -- 9. Social Structure and Change in Tokugawa and Early Modern Japan [from Chapter 2 - The Meiji State] / Jon Halliday -- 10. Commentaries on Constitutional Provisions / Ito Hirobumi -- 11. Imperial Rescript on Education / In the Name of Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor -- 12. A Century of Japanese Economic Growth / Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky -- 13. Japan and Europe: Contrasts in Industrialization / David S. Landes -- 14. The Dark Valley / Richard Storry -- 15. From the Washington Conference to the Pacific War / Jon Halliday -- 16. Theory and Psychology of Ultra-Nationalism / Masao Maruyama -- 17. Japanese and International Fascism / Karl Radek -- 18. Plan for the Reorganization of Japan / Kita Ikki -- 19. Tenancy and Aggression / Ronald Dore -- 20. Agriculture and the Villages before World War II / Tadashi Fukutake -- 21. "If Only We Might Fall..." / Ivan Morris -- 22. An Empire Won and Lost, 1939-1945 / W. G. Beasley -- 23. The Destruction of Sanbetsu Kaigi and the Formation of Sohyo / Jon Halliday -- 24. The Japanese "Miracle" / Chalmers Johnson -- 25. A Planned Market Economy / Bernard Eccleston -- 26. Social Ills and Destruction of the Environment / Tadashi Fukutake -- 27. Japan in the Passing Lane / Satoshi Kamata -- 28. The Japanese Working Class / Rob Steven -- 29. Men and Women / Janet Hunter -- 30. Company, Society and Change / Rodney Clark -- 31. The Price of Affluence / Gavan McCormack -- 32. The Japanese Polity / Bernard Eccleston -- 33. Minorities / Peter J. Herzog -- 34. The Japanese Peasantry and Economic Growth Since the Land Reform of 1946-47 / Bernard Bernier |
| Summary |
Greenwich Readers is a major new anthology series designed specifically to supplement teaching resources at undergraduate level in the following subject areas: social sciences, humanities and law. Drawing together a varied and frequently inaccessible range of essential readings and key texts, this ongoing programme has been carefully selected to provide a detailed overview of individual subjects and forms a framework for specific courses. The overall series has been devised to offer a solution to many of the problems students encounter in accessing set course texts, and it is hoped the anthologies will alleviate both pressure on library resources as well as ensuring higher levels of course completion. All volumes benefit from introductory essays and appropriate linking passages, and full textual references are included where available. Modern Japan presents the social scientist with a series of intriguing problems. Was Japan's pre-modern society in fact a variety of feudalism and did this type of social structure, as in the West, serve as a springboard for capitalist development? In the nineteenth century Japan alone was the only country beyond Europe and her dominions to autonomously set herself the goal of creating an industrial economy. How can this uniqueness be explained? In the process of transforming her pre-modern society Japan constructed a modern military system that was capable of confronting the Great Powers. Despite her subsequent defeat, Japan rose again to world prominence to become an economic superpower posing the question of how she was able to achieve such current distinctiveness. These themes form the foundations of an anthology that investigates these questions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069375
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Japan -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069403
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Japan -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069498
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Japan -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069426
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069551
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069584
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| Author |
Megarry, Tim, 1941-
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| LC no. |
97189289 |
| ISBN |
1874529353 |
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