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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 07 May 2020

This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 June 1972

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the Western powers prompt changes in

• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2017

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 50,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 1994

Jansen tells the story of the Restoration in the career and thought of Sakamoto Ryoma and, to a lesser extent, Nakaoka Shintaro, each an example of the new type of

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 32,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 July 2014

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 28,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

"In this volume, Wert traces the shifting portrayals of Restoration losers and the supporters who promoted their legacy. By highlighting the overlooked sites of memory and legends, Wert illustrates how

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 June 2019

Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 31,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 November 2021

This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 53,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 1992

Like the French Revolution, the Meiji Restoration transformed a whole society. Japan was never the same after 1868. The meaning of the events that led to the restoration has therefore profoundly