UID:
almahu_9948022483502882
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 828 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139055093 (ebook)
Content:
Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state. It traces the roots and course of political, social, and institutional change that took place in Japan from late Tokugawa times to the early twentieth century. During this period Japan, under pressure from the intrusive West, abandoned its policy of national seclusion and remodeled its institutions to build the strength necessary to join the great powers and to fashion an empire in East Asia. The volume consists of an interrelated collection of authoritative and analytical chapters by specialists in the history of nineteenth-century Japan that discuss the fissures in late feudal society, the impact of and responses to the West, the overthrow of the shogunal government, and the revolutionary changes that were instituted as defensive measures to strengthen the country against what seemed a dangerous competition with the Western world.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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Introduction /
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Japan in the early nineteenth century /
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The Tempō crisis /
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Late Tokugawa culture and thought /
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The foreign threat and the opening of the ports /
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The Meiji Restoration /
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Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868-1885 /
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Japan's turn to the west /
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Social change /
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Economic change in the nineteenth century /
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Meiji political institutions /
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Meiji conservatism /
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Japan's drive to great-power status /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521223560
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521223560
