Modern Japan A History in Documents

Name: Modern Japan A History in Documents
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ISBN: 9780195392531

ISBN-10: 0195392531

ISBN-13: 9780195392531

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: James L. Huffman

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Employing a wide range of primary source materials, Modern Japan: A History in Documents provides a colorful narrative of Japan's development since 1600. A variety of diary entries, letters, legal documents, and poems brings to life the early modern years, when Japan largely shut itself offfrom the outside world. A picture essay highlights the tumultuous decade and a half following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and the U.S. Navy in 1853, which led to unprecedented changes and a new government. The dramatic rush to modernity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, accompanied byJapan's entry into the imperialist rivalry, is seen through travel accounts, novelists' recollections, and…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 9.88" wide x 7.91" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430