Format:
1 online resource (632 pages)
ISBN:
9780470751381
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to world history
Content:
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars, it balances treatment of traditional themes with coverage of current trends and emerging perspectives. The volume presents a chronological survey of Japanese history from the country's earliest history up to the present day, giving readers insights into the key developments in each period of Japan's past. It also examines themes and alternative histories, with a particular emphasis on approaches and issues that will shape the future development of scholarship in Japanese history.
Content:
Intro -- A COMPANION TO JAPANESE HISTORY -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Japan before 1600 -- 1 Japanese Beginnings -- 2 The Heian Period -- 3 Medieval Japan -- Part II Early Modern Japan -- 4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule -- 5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan -- 6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan -- 7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan -- Part III Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration through World War II -- 8 Restoration and Revolution -- 9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism -- 10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan -- 11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity -- 12 External Relations -- 13 The Japanese Empire -- 14 The Fifteen-Year War -- Part IV Japan since 1945 -- 15 The Occupation -- 16 Postwar Politics -- 17 The Postwar Japanese Economy -- 18 Postwar Society and Culture -- 19 Japan in the World -- Part V Themes in Japanese History -- 20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan -- 21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan -- 22 Class and Social Stratification -- 23 Japan in Asia -- 24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies -- 25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan -- 26 Popular Culture -- 27 Rural Japan and Agriculture -- 28 Business and Labor -- 29 Authority and the Individual -- 30 National Identity and Nationalism -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405193399
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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