Modern Japan : a social and political history
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Bibliographic Information
Modern Japan : a social and political history
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 2008
2nd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 47 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This thoroughly updated second edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power.
Dealing with a broad and stimulating range of topics in an engaging style that will appeal to university students and the general reader, this book weaves social and political developments and balances a micro with a macro approach, introducing details about everyday lives that shed light on the bigger picture of major historical changes. Its systematic attention to gender issues, minorities and popular culture distinguishes this history and contributes to a sense of the complexity and diversity of modern Japanese society.
Completely up-to-date and including many new images and a timeline that charts important events, this highly accessible and comprehensive textbook is an essential resource for students, scholars and teachers of Japanese history, politics culture and society.
Table of Contents
1. Tokugawa Background: The Ideal and the Real 2. The Mid-Century Crisis 3. The Early Meiji Revolution 4. The 1880s and 1890s: Defining a Japanese National Identity 5. Late Meiji: An End and a Beginning 6. An Emerging Mass Society: Demands for Equity and the Dilemmas of Choice 7. Contesting the Modern in the 1930s 8. The Dark Valley 9. `Enduring the Unendurable' and Starting Over in the `New' Japan 10. Conflict and Consensus in the 1950s 11. The `Economic Miracle' ... and Its Underside 12. The `Rich Country' 13. The `Lost Decade' 14. Whither Japan?
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