Japan In World History

Author : James L. Huffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199709748

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Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid donor. Writing in a lively fashion, Huffman makes rich use of primary sources, illustrating events with comments by the people who lived through them: tellers of ancient myths, court women who dominated the early literary world, cynical priests who damned medieval materialism, travelers who marveled at "indecent" Western ballroom dancers in the mid-1800s, and the emperor who justified Pearl Harbor. Without ignoring standard political and military events, the book illuminates economic, social, and cultural factors; it also examines issues of gender as well as the roles of commoners, samurai, business leaders, novelists, and priests.

Author : James L. Huffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0199798842

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Japan in World History by James L. Huffman Pdf

Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid donor. Writing in a lively fashion, Huffman makes rich use of primary sources, illustrating events with comments by the people who lived through them: tellers of ancient myths, court women who dominated the early literary world, cynical priests who damned medieval materialism, travelers who marveled at "indecent" Western ballroom dancers in the mid-1800s, and the emperor who justified Pearl Harbor. Without ignoring standard political and military events, the book illuminates economic, social, and cultural factors; it also examines issues of gender as well as the roles of commoners, samurai, business leaders, novelists, and priests.

Author : Catherine L. Phipps
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1003141412

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Meiji Japan in Global History by Catherine L. Phipps Pdf

This book examines Meiji Japan (1868-1912) to demonstrate the complex interplay between Japanese nation-building and the country's engagement with global processes. "Meiji Japan" refers to an era (1868-1912) that--as experienced from within--had an undetermined duration and extent. The length of the emperor's reign was not preordained, and the country's territorial borders were not as well-defined or wide-reaching at the start of the period as at the close. Questions about who was represented by and who identified with the emerging nation-state remained in flux as Japan's modern political, economic, legal, and sociocultural parameters were being created. Basing their inquiries on the idea of Meiji Japan in global history, the authors examine Japan's rise on the modern world stage, focusing on the individuals--whether government leaders, intellectual elites, indigenous communities, or colonial migrants--who both shaped and were shaped by this era of global connectivity. Localized challenges and supranational opportunities meant people were in motion, as territorial expansion redefined marginalized groups, and as diverse populations moved to and from colonized and foreign lands. This volume seeks to excavate how people back then positioned themselves in a specific time and place, just as people in the twenty-first century seek to give Meiji Japan meaning at the sesquicentennial commemoration of its start. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Japan Forum.

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462919345

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Brief History of Japan by Jonathan Clements Pdf

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign. It was the terminus of the Silk Road, the furthest end of the known world, a fertile source of inspiration for European artists, and an enduring symbol of the mysterious East. In recent times, it has become a powerhouse of global industry, a nexus of popular culture, and a harbinger of post-industrial decline. With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests. Among the chapters in this Japanese history book are: The Way of the Gods: Prehistoric and Mythical Japan A Game of Thrones: Minamoto vs. Taira Time Warp: 200 Years of Isolation The Stench of Butter: Restoration and Modernization The New Breed: The Japanese Miracle

Author : Gary D. Allinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801489121

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Japan's Postwar History by Gary D. Allinson Pdf

The second edition of the book that provides a unique integrated analysis of Japan's social, political, and economic history from 1932 until the present day.

Author : Richard Henry Pitt Mason,John Godwin Caiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4805303492

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A History of Japan by Richard Henry Pitt Mason,John Godwin Caiger Pdf

Author : Sir George Bailey Sansom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1889211

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Japan in World History by Sir George Bailey Sansom Pdf

Author : Mark Ravina
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190656102

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To Stand with the Nations of the World by Mark Ravina Pdf

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American advisors. While revering the Japanese past, the Meiji government boldly embraced the foreign and the new. What explains this paradox? How could Japan's 1868 revolution be both modern and traditional, both xenophobic and cosmopolitan? To Stand with the Nations of the World explains the paradox of the Restoration through the forces of globalization. The Meiji Restoration was part of the global "long nineteenth century" during which ambitious nation states like Japan, Britain, Germany, and the United States challenged the world's great multi-ethnic empires--Ottoman, Qing, Romanov, and Hapsburg. Japan's leaders wanted to celebrate Japanese uniqueness, but they also sought international recognition. Rather than simply mimic world powers like Britain, they sought to make Japan distinctly Japanese in the same way that Britain was distinctly British. Rather than sing "God Save the King," they created a Japanese national anthem with lyrics from ancient poetry, but Western-style music. The Restoration also resonated with Japan's ancient past. In the 600s and 700s, Japan was threatened by the Tang dynasty, a dynasty as powerful as the Roman empire. In order to resist the Tang, Japanese leaders borrowed Tang methods, building a centralized Japanese state on Tang models, and learning continental science and technology. As in the 1800s, Japan co-opted international norms while insisting on Japanese distinctiveness. When confronting globalization in 1800s, Japan looked back to that "ancient globalization" of the 600s and 700s. The ancient past was therefore not remote or distant, but immediate and vital.

Author : John Whitney Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0521223547

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The Cambridge History of Japan by John Whitney Hall Pdf

Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

Author : James L. McClain
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0393041565

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Japan, a Modern History by James L. McClain Pdf

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107004184

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A Concise History of Japan by Brett L. Walker Pdf

A comprehensive and engaging new history, charting Japan's development from its origins through to the present day.

Author : W. G. Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000510935

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Modern Japan by W. G. Beasley Pdf

Originally published in 1975, much of Western scholarly writing on Japan had in recent years concerned the study of modernisation. The papers in this volume, which were prepared by leading specialists from Europe and Israel, concentrate on the problems arising from modernisation, rather than on an analysis of the process itself. The historical papers deal with various aspects of the political and international tensions that link modernisation to Japanese expansion and the Second World War: the civil war of 1868; early newspapers and nationalist opinion; the Washington Conference; politics in the 1930s; the bombing of Japan in 1945. Those on literature examine some related themes concerning national attitudes, as expressed in drama and the novel, especially in the context of the relationship of modern ideas and institutions to traditional culture and society. Similar questions are raised by the discussion of new post-war religions, as well as in papers on the use of leisure and on industrial relations in contemporary Japan. Finally, there are two contributions dealing with the economic consequences of the industrial miracle that has marked the latest phase of modernisation, one on balance of payments difficulties and one on current plans to deal with the problems of urban growth. Many of these papers present the results of hitherto unpublished research of great importance to students of modern Japan.

Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0195339223

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A Modern History of Japan by Andrew Gordon Pdf

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Second 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. The true ingenuity and value of Gordon's approach lies in his close attention to the non-elite layers of society. Here students will see the influence of outside ideas, products, and culture on home life, labor unions, political parties, gender relations, and popular entertainment. The book examines Japan's struggles to define the meaning of its modernization, from villages and urban neighborhoods, to factory floors and middle managers' offices, to the imperial court. Most importantly, it illuminates the interconnectedness of Japanese developments with world history, demonstrating how Japan's historical passage represents a variation of a process experienced by many nations and showing how the Japanese narrative forms one part of the interwoven fabric of modern history. This second edition incorporates increased coverage of both Japan's role within East Asia--particularly with China, Korea, and Manchuria--as well as expanded discussions of cultural and intellectual history. With a sustained focus on setting modern Japan in a comparative and global context, A Modern History of Japan, Second Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in modern Japanese history, Japanese politics, Japanese society, or Japanese culture.

Author : Mikiso Hane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780743332

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Japan by Mikiso Hane Pdf

What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and its history surveys nearly 10,000 years of society, culture, economics and politics. Balancing economic and political information with new insights into the twin spheres of art and religion, Mikiso Hane offers authoritative coverage of all aspects of Japanese life. With a particular focus on the key events of the last 200 years, the author also pays special attention to the changing conditions of those whose history has been so frequently neglected - the women, the peasants, and the lowest order of untouchables. Well-rounded and enlightening, this informative account of Japan and its people will be greatly appreciated by historians, students and all those with an interest in this diverse and enigmatic country.

Author : George Sansom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06
Category : Japan
ISBN : 041585234X

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Japan in World History by George Sansom Pdf

In this volume the author considers what the purpose and method of advanced Japanese studies should be. He discusses areas of controversy in interpretation which arise when a comparative method is used and Japanese history is examined in correlation with world history.