附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-345) and index.
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 in perspective, 1709-1783 -- Prosperity amid crises, 1789-1853 -- Sakoku under pressure: the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s -- Fashioning a state and a foreign policy, 1868-1919 -- From peace to war, 1919-41.
摘要:Offering a distinctive overview of the pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan, Louis Cullen rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography and combines economic, social, and political approaches to create a powerful analysis. Cullen reviews the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war, to present an island nation that is a growing industrial power with little perception of its worldwide context.
