| Edition |
Fourth edition. |
| Description |
xv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Tokugawa Polity -- 2. Social and Economic Transformations -- 3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa -- 4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa -- 5. The Samurai Revolution -- 6. Participation and Protest -- 7. Social, Economic, Environmental, and Cultural Transformations -- 8. Empire and Domestic Order -- 9. Economy and Society -- 10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars -- 11. The Depression Crisis and Responses -- 12. Japan in Wartime -- 13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures -- 14. Economic and Social Transformations -- 15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era -- 16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s -- 17. Japan's "Lost Decades": 1990s-2000s -- 18. Shock, Disaster, and the End of the Hesei Era: Beyond the 'Lost Decades'? |
| Summary |
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Japan -- History -- 1868-
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Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
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Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868. (OCoLC)fst01711639
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan. (DE-588)1086306651
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1600
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gordon, Andrew, 1952- author. Modern history of Japan Fourth edition. New York : Oxford University Press, [2020] 9780190920562 (DLC) 2018060624 |
| ISBN |
9780190920555 (paperback) |
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0190920556 (paperback) |
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9780190920579 (looseleaf) |
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0190920572 (looseleaf) |
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