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• Title:A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present / Andrew Gordon, Harvard University.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gordon, Andrew, 1952- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS881.9 .G66 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Japan--History--1868-
  Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
  
• Edition:Third edition.
  
• Description:xiv, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:A Modern History of Japan paints a portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate -- the 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. Andrew Gordon offers a synthesis of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-388) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199930159 (acid-free paper)
  0199930155 (acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction: Enduring imprints of the longer past
  Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime. Tokugawa polity
  Social and economic transformations
  Intellectual world of late Tokugawa
  Overthrow of the Tokugawa
  Modern Revolution, 1868-1905. 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, 1952-2012. Economic and social transformations
  Political struggles and settlements of the high-growth era
  Global power in a polarized world: Japan in the 1980s
  Japan's "lost decades": 1989-2008
  Shock, disaster, and aftermath: Japan since 2008
  Appendix: Prime ministers of Japan, 1885-2012.