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Foreign influence and the transformation of early modern japan. Start studying the tokugawa polity ch1 a modern history of japan. A history of japan, 15821941 internal and external worlds this book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern japan. My entry into the field of japanese history was fortuitous. As an undergraduate at princeton i had decided on a career in reformation and renaissance history, but world war ii and the. This book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pres sures responsible for the making of modern japan. Jansen the belknap press of harvard university press cambridge, massachusetts london, england. At the same time many japanese companies, which continue to make worldclass products, are posting record profits, and through the 1990s recession japan enjoyed huge trade surpluses. To purchase this ebook for personal use, or in paperback or hardback format, please visit. The modern history of japan is the history of modernity. Many books on japans history are encyclopedic in nature and have so much detail it. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

This book is called a modern history of japan in order to shift the balance between japanese ness and modernity. From tokugawa times to the present andrew gordon oxford university press a moder n histo ry of japan this. Japanese imperial house as a central element in japan s national identity, based on the japanese myths. The cambridge history of japan is the first major collaborative synthesis to present the current state of knowledge of japanese history for the englishreading world. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, japanese leaders and thinkers were preoccupied with fashioning a state that could compete with the western powers. This impulse reflected their insecurity over japan s ability to survive in a hostile international. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with major events in modern japanese history and scholarly interpretations of these events. The political history of modern japan foreign relations and. The meiji rule ended with the death of the emperor on july 30, 1912, which also marked the end of the era of the genro. This era in japanese history was a momentous epoch that saw the transformation of feudal japan into a modern industrialized state with a. The series draws on the expertise and research of leading japanese specialists as well as the foremost western historians of japan. Pdf the political and institutional history of early modern japan.