The Making of Modern JapanMagisterial 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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User Review - missizicks - LibraryThingMarius B Jansen's The Making of Modern Japan is a thoroughly researched but approachable tome that debunks a few Western myths about Japan's relationship with the wider world under the Tokugawa regime ... Read full review
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User Review - KirkusA tremendous history of the upheavals that transformed Japan into the world's most successful of non-Western countries.Jansen (Japanese History/Princeton) shows how the country at first reluctantly ... Read full review
Contents
1 Sekigahara | 1 |
2The Tokugawa State | 32 |
3 Foreign Relations | 63 |
4 Status Groups | 96 |
5 Urbanization and Communications | 127 |
6 The Development of a Mass Culture | 159 |
7 Education Thought and Religion | 187 |
8 Change Protest and Reform | 223 |
14 Meiji Culture | 456 |
15Japan between the Wars | 495 |
16 Taisho Culture and Society | 537 |
17 The China War | 576 |
18 The Pacific War | 625 |
19 The Yoshida Years | 675 |
20 Japan since Independence | 715 |
Further Reading | 769 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Making of Modern Japan |
| Author | Marius B. Jansen |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0674039106, 9780674039100 |
| Length | 936 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / Japan |
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