| Description |
1 online resource (609 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; A Note on Japanese and Chinese Names; Preface; 1 Japan Before the Seventeenth Century; Early History of the Japanese People; Traditional Culture and Institutions of the Pre-Tokugawa Years; Notes; 2 Establishment of the Tokugawa Bakufu; The ShÅ#x8D;gun of the Tokugawa Bakufu; Tokugawa Institutions; The Structure of Tokugawa Society; The Culture of the Tokugawa Period; Notes; 3 The Late Tokugawa Period; Political Developments; Economic Problems; The Lot of the Peasants; Peasant Uprisings; Agricultural Improvements |
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Intellectual Currents: Reformers and CriticsNotes; 4 The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu; Arrival of Commodore Perry; The Immediate Consequences; The Mentality of SonnÅ#x8D; JÅ#x8D;i; The Rise of the Anti-Bakufu Forces; The Meiji Restoration; Notes; 5 The Meiji Restoration: The New Order; Political Changes; Local Government; Social Reforms; Pensions for the Kazoku and Shizoku; Revision of the Land Tax and the Plight of the Farmers; Legal Reforms; The Police System; The Army and the Navy; Economic Developments; Education; Civilization and Enlightenment; Religion; Notes |
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6 The Continuing Meiji Revolution (I): Political DevelopmentsPolitical Reactions; Agrarian Unrest; The Movement for Popular Rights; Fortification of the Central Government; The Constitution; Notes; 7 The Continuing Meiji Revolution (II): Cultural, Economic, and Social Developments; Cultural Nationalism; Initial Modern Economic Growth; The Plight of the Workers; Social Conditions; Notes; 8 Political Developments in Later Meiji; Partisan Politics: 1887-1894; The Korean Question and the Sino-Japanese War; Postwar Domestic Political Developments; Notes; 9 The Conclusion of the Meiji Era |
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The Russo-Japanese WarForeign Affairs After the War; Internal Affairs After the War; The Death of Emperor Meiji; Meiji Japan: An Assessment; Notes; 10 The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (I); Internal Political Affairs: 1912-1918; Foreign Affairs; Economic Developments: 1906-1930; Social Reform Movements: Labor; Agrarian Reform Movements; The Outcastes and the Suiheisha; Movement for Women's Rights; Democratic and Socialistic Political Movements; Notes; 11 The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (II); Culture of the TaishÅ#x8D; Era; Political Developments: 1918-1932; Notes |
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12 The Ascendancy of MilitarismRadical Nationalists and Militarists; Conspiracies and Assassinations; The Manchurian Incident; Internal Political Developments: The Triumph of the Militarists; Economic Developments; Notes; 13 The Road to War; China Policy to 1937; The China Incident; Internal Developments; Further Foreign Entanglements; Negotiations with the United States; The Occupation of Southern French Indochina; The Decision for War; Notes; 14 War and Defeat; The Offensive War; The War at Home; The Defensive War; The Allied Strategy: ""Island Hopping |
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The Transference of Leadership from TÅ#x8D;jÅ#x8D; to Koiso |
| Summary |
A thoughtful and richly detailed survey of modern Japanese history from the Tokugawa period to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069480
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Japan -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069498
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Perez, Louis G
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| ISBN |
9780429963520 |
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0429963521 |
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9780429974601 |
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0429974604 |
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9780429493430 |
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0429493436 |
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9780429973062 |
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0429973063 |
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