The Emergence of Meiji Japan (Cambridge History of Japan) - Softcover

Jansen, Marius B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521484057 ISBN 13: 9780521484053

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Bringing together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan, this book chronicles the transition from Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally ended centuries of warrior rule.

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"...offers an incisive analysis of the immutable realtionship between foreign relations and domestic politics which transformed Japan from a modern nation state to an imperialist power between 1868 and 1912." Mark Lincicome, Journal of Asian History

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This paperback edition brings together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the hardships of the Tempo era in the 1830s, the crisis of values and confidence during the last half century of Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally brought down the Tokugawa regime and ended centuries of warrior rule. It goes on to discuss the samurai rebellions against the Meiji Restoration, and national movements for constitutional government which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889. The significance of Japan's Meiji transformation for the rest of the world is the subject of the final chapter, in which Professor Akira Iriye discusses Japan's drive to Great Power status. 'Constitutional rule at home, imperialism abroad', became new goals for early twentieth-century Japan.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521484057
• ISBN 13: 9780521484053
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368