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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 Workforce and Labor Conditions | |
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| Spread of Mass and Higher Education | |
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| Culture and Religion | |
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| Affirming 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 the Nation for 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, 1952-2012 | |
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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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| Japan's "Lost Decades": 1989-2008 | |
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| The End of Showa | |
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| The Specter of a Divided Society | |
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| Economy of the first "Lost Decade" | |
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| The Fall and Rise of the Liberal Democratic Party | |
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| Assessing Reforms, Explaining Recovery | |
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| Between Asia and the West | |
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| Shock, Disaster, and Aftermath: Japan since 2008 | |
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| The Lehman Shock | |
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| Politics of Hope and Disillusionment | |
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| Making Sense of the Perception of Decline | |
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| The Disasters of "3.11" and their Aftermath | |
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| Appendix Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2012 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |