Japan before Perry : a short history

Author(s)

• Totman, Conrad D.

Bibliographic Information

Japan before Perry : a short history

Conrad Totman

University of California Press, c1981

• : hc
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 239-240

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cultural and political development into a rich historical narrative.

Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface 1 The Beginnings Prehistoric cultures The Yamato age 2 Classical Japan: An Age of Aristocratic Bureaucracy The origins of aristocratic bureaucracy Evolution of the political order, A.D. 700-1100 Higher culture Aristocratic Buddhism Arts and letters The larger society The waning of an age 3 Medieval Japan: An Age of Political Fluidity The emergence of bushi rule Evolution of the political order, A.D. 1250-1500 Higher culture The bushi ethos Religious thought and action Arts and letters: a new aesthetic unity Social change: the early phase of a metamorphosis Economic trends Military trends Trends in gross productivity and population The legacy of an age 4 Early-Modern Japan: An Age of Integral Bureaucracy The forging of integral bureaucracy Emergence of the new structure The chronology of pacification Evolution of the political order, A.D. 1615-1850 Elaboration of the polity Articulation of an ideology of rule Stresses in the polity Higher culture Bushi culture Chanin culture The spread of literacy and learning The pattern of early-modern thought Social change: toward completion of a metamorphosis Urbanization Commercialization Rural change The decay of an age Rural disorder New directions in arts and letters New trends in political thought Growth and regulation The environmental legacy Early-modern growth Early-modern regulation Conclusion Glossary Bibliographical Note Index

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Details

• NCID: BA0355912X
• ISBN:
  • 0520041321
  • 9780520254077
• LCCN: 80014708
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 246 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS835
  • DC : 952
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japan -- History -- To 1868