| Publication |
Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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| Description |
xvii,357pGrey Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern Japan.
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| Contents |
List of maps
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 1582-1941
Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582-1689
The Japanese economy, 1688-1789
An age of stability: Japan's internal world, 1709-1783, in perspective
Prosperity amid crises, 1789-1853
Sakoku under pressure: the gaiastu of the 1850s and 1860s
Fashioning a state and a foreign policy: Japan 1868-1919
From peace (Versailles 1919) to war (Pearl Harbor 1941)
Tokugawa shoguns
Main regnal periods
Glossary
Introduction to bibliography
Bibliography
Index
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| Standard Number |
0521529182 Pb.
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