Early modern Japan
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Early modern Japan
(The Cambridge history of Japan / general editors, John W. Hall ... [et al.], v. 4)
Cambridge University Press, 1991
Available at 226 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 771-812
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the fourth of six volumes designed to explore the history of Japan from prehistoric to modern times. Volume 4 covers the years from 1550 to 1800, a short but surprisingly eventful period in Japanese history commonly referred to as Japan's Early Modern Age. At the start, in the sixteenth century, much of the country was being pulled apart by local military lords engaged in a struggle for land and local hegemony. These daimyo succeeded in dividing Japan into nearly autonomous regional domains. This volume attempts to flesh out the historical tale with insights into the way that people lived and worked. It examines the relationship between peasant and local lord, and between the lord, as a unit of local government, and the emerging shogunate. It offers insights into the evolution of indigenous thought and religion and it also deals with Japan's foreign relations, particularly the impact of the Christian missionary movement.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction John Whitney Hall
- 2. The sixteenth-century unification Asao Naohiro
- 3. The social and economic consequences of unification Wakita Osamu
- 4. The bakuhan system John Whitney Hall
- 5. The han Harold Bolitho
- 6. The inseparable trinity: Japan's relations with China and Korea George Elison
- 7. Christianity and the daimyo George Elison
- 8. Thought and religion: 1550-1700 Bito Masahide
- 9. Politics in the eighteenth century Tsuji Tatsuya
- 10. The village and agriculture during the Edo period Furushima Toshio
- 11. Commercial change and urban growth in early modern Japan Nakai Nobuhiko and James L. McClain
- 12. History and nature in eighteenth-century Tokugawa thought Tetsuo Najita
- 13. Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles Susan B. Hanley
- 14. Popular culture Donald B. Shiveley
- Glossary
- Index.
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