A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present / Andrew Gordon

By:

Gordon, Andrew, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextOriginal language: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press , 2020Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xv, 447 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780190920555 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

952.03

Summary: A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BE	Resource Centre	JP collection	952.03 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		BJ0011

Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-414) and index.

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.-- Provided by publisher.

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