附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-370) and index.
Crisis of the Tokugawa regime. The Tokugawa polity ; Social and economic transformations ; The intellectual world of late Tokugawa ; The overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Modern revolution, 1868-1905. The Samurai revolution ; Participation and protest ; Social, economic, and cultural transformations ; Empire and domestic order -- Imperial Japan from ascendance to ashes. Economy and society ; Democracy and empire between the world wars ; The depression crisis and responses ; Japan in wartime ; Occupied Japan: new departures and durable structures -- Postwar and contemporary Japan, 1952-2000. Economic and social transformations ; Political struggles and settlements of the high-growth era ; Global power in a polarized world: Japan in the 1980's ; Beyond the postwar era.
摘要:This text covers Japanese history from approximately 1800 - the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family - to the start of the 21st century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power.
