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Maps, Tables, and Figures | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Enduring Imprints of the Longer Past | |
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Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime | |
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The Tokugawa Polity | |
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Unification | |
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The Tokugawa Political Settlements | |
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The Daimyo | |
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The Imperial Institution | |
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The Samurai | |
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Villagers and City-Dwellers | |
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The Margins of the Japanese and Japan | |
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Social and Economic Transformations | |
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The Seventeenth-Century Boom | |
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Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality | |
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The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa | |
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Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime | |
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Cultural Diversity and Contradictions | |
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Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas | |
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The Overthrow of the Tokugawa | |
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The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties | |
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The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule | |
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Politics of Terror and Accommodation | |
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Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest | |
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Modern Revolution, 1868-1905 | |
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The Samurai Revolution | |
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Programs of Nationalist Revolution | |
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Political Unification and Central Bureaucracy | |
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Eliminating the Status System | |
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The Conscript Army | |
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Compulsory Education | |
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The Monarch at the Center | |
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Building a Rich Country | |
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Stances toward the World | |
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Participation and Protest | |
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Political Discourse and Contention | |
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Movement for Freedom and People's Rights | |
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Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions | |
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Participation for Women | |
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Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics | |
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The Meiji Constitution | |
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Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations | |
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Landlords and Tenants | |
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Industrial Revolution | |
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The Work Force and Labor Conditions | |
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Spread of Mass and Higher Education | |
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Culture and Religion | |
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Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny | |
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Empire and Domestic Order | |
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The Trajectory to Empire | |
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Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building | |
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The Turbulent World of Diet Politics | |
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The Era of Popular Protest | |
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Engineering Nationalism | |
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Imperial Japan From Ascendance to Ashes | |
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Economy and Society | |
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Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust | |
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Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life | |
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City Life: Middle and Working Classes | |
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Cultural Responses to Social Change | |
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Democracy and Empire between the World Wars | |
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The Emergence of Party Cabinets | |
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The Structure of Parliamentary Government | |
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Ideological Challenges | |
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Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule | |
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Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers | |
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The Depression Crisis and Responses | |
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Economic and Social Crisis | |
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Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad | |
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Toward a New Social and Economic Order | |
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Toward a New Political Order | |
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Japan in Wartime | |
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Wider War in China | |
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Toward Pearl Harbor | |
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The Pacific War | |
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Mobilizing for Total War | |
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Living in the Shadow of War | |
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Ending the War | |
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Burdens and Legacies of War | |
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Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures | |
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Bearing the Unbearable | |
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The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize | |
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Japanese Responses | |
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The Reverse Course | |
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Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? | |
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Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000 | |
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Economic and Social Transformations | |
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The Postwar "Economic Miracle" | |
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Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work | |
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Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era | |
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Differences Enduring and Realigned | |
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Managing Social Stability and Change | |
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Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change | |
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Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era | |
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Political Struggles | |
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The Politics of Accommodation | |
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Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth | |
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Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s | |
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New Roles in the World and New Tensions | |
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Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises | |
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Politics: The Conservative Heyday | |
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Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties | |
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Beyond the Postwar Era | |
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The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy | |
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The End of LDP Hegemony | |
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The Economic Bubble Bursts | |
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The Japanese Disease at Century's End? | |
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Issues for the Future | |
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Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2001 | |
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Vote Totals and Seats by Party, 1945-2000 Lower House Elections | |
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Notes | |
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Select Bibliography | |
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Index | |