Making of Modern Japan

Name: Making of Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780674009912

ISBN-10: 0674009916

ISBN-13: 9780674009912

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Marius B. Jansen

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Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. Since 1600 Japan has undergone three periods of wrenching social and institutional change, following the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society by the Tokugawa shogun; the opening of Japan's ports by Commodore Perry; and defeat in World War II. The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes: the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 936
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Names and Romanization



Sekigahara



The Sengoku Background



The New Sengoku Daimyo



The Unifiers: Oda Nobunaga



Toyotomi Hideyoshi



Azuchi-Momoyama Culture



The Spoils of Sekigahara: Tokugawa Ieyasu



The Tokugawa State



Taking Control



Ranking the Daimyo



The Structure of the Tokugawa Bakufu



The Domains (han)



Center and Periphery: Bakufu-Han Relations



The Tokugawa ""State""



Foreign Relations



The Setting



Relations with Kor