A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present

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A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present

Andrew Gordon

Oxford University Press, 2003

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 363-370

Includes index

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: hardback ISBN 9780195110609

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This is an exploration of Japanese history from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to the beginning of the 21st century. The author shows how Japanese modernization transformed the country from semi-colony to world power.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195110616

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The Modern History of Japan covers Japanese history from approximately 1800--the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family--to the start of the twenty-first century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power. It then analyzes Japan's modern revolution of the late 19th century: the rise of a modern nation-state structure, the evolution of a capitalist industrial society, and the surprising move from semi-colony of the west to imperialist power. The second half of the book examines Japan's twentieth-century trajectory from global power through devastating war and defeat and occupation. It concludes by investigating the postwar history of contemporary Japan.

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