A companion to Japanese history
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to world history
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Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470751398 |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 618 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-592) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780470751381 047075138X 9781405116909 1405116900 9780470751398 0470751398 |
Index Number: | DS835 |
CLC: | K313.0 |
Contents: |
List of maps -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Japan before 1600 -- Japanese beginnings / The Heian period / Medieval Japan / Early modern Japan -- Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule / Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan / Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan / Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan / Modern Japan : from the Meiji restoration through World War II -- Restoration and revolution / Oligarchy, democracy, and fascism / Social and economic change in prewar Japan / Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity / External relations / The Japanese empire / The fifteen-year war / Japan since 1945 -- The occupation / Postwar politics / The postwar Japanese economy / Postwar society and culture / Themes in Japanese history -- Women and sexuality in premodern Japan / Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Class and social stratification / Japan in Asia / Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies / Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan / Popular culture / Rural Japan and agriculture / Business and labor / Authority and the individual / National identity and nationalism / Consolidated bibliography -- Index. |