A companion to Japanese history
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A companion to Japanese history
(Blackwell companions to world history)
Blackwell Pub., 2007
- : hardback
Available at 44 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
Consolidated bibliography: p. [545]-592
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history.
Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
Table of Contents
List of Maps viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
William M. Tsutsui
PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11
1 Japanese Beginnings 13
Mark J. Hudson
2 The Heian Period 30
G. Cameron Hurst III
3 Medieval Japan 47
Andrew Edmund Goble
PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67
4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69
Philip C. Brown
5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86
Edward E. Pratt
6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101
Peter Nosco
7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117
Lawrence E. Marceau
PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137
8 Restoration and Revolution 139
James L. Huffman
9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156
Stephen S. Large
10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan 172
Mark Jones and Steven Ericson
11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity 189
Elise K. Tipton
12 External Relations 207
Frederick R. Dickinson
13 The Japanese Empire 224
Y. Tak Matsusaka
14 The Fifteen-Year War 241
W. Miles Fletcher III
PART IV JAPAN SINCE 1945 263
15 The Occupation 265
Mark Metzler
16 Postwar Politics 281
Ray Christensen
17 The Postwar Japanese Economy 299
Bai Gao
18 Postwar Society and Culture 315
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
19 Japan in the World 333
Glenn D. Hook
PART V THEMES IN JAPANESE HISTORY 349
20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan 351
Hitomi Tonomura
21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan 372
Sally A. Hastings
22 Class and Social Stratification 389
Ian Neary
23 Japan in Asia 407
Leo Ching
24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies 424
Michael Lewis
25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan 443
Gavan McCormack
26 Popular Culture 460
E. Taylor Atkins
27 Rural Japan and Agriculture 477
Eric C. Rath
28 Business and Labor 493
Charles Weathers
29 Authority and the Individual 511
J. Victor Koschmann
30 National Identity and Nationalism 528
Kevin M. Doak
Consolidated Bibliography 545
Index 593
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