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Japan in World History
James L. Huffman
176 pages
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22 black and white halftones, 6 black and white line illustrations
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234x156mm
978-0-19-536809-3
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Hardback
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04 February 2010
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- Includes multiple voices and perspectives: women, peasants, novelists and short-story writers, dissenters, officials, business leaders, samurai
- Each chapter contains 20 to 30 quotations from primary sources, which lend both authority and vitality to the narrative
- Rooted in the latest scholarship on Japan's history, overturning previously held assumptions
Here is a page-turning, compact history of Japan from earliest times to the present, with a focus on its often tempestuous, often creative relationships with other countries. The book 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
documents, 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.Readership: Scholars and general readers interested in Japanese and world history.
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James L. Huffman, Professor Emeritus of History, Wittenberg College
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Introduction
1: Japan's Emergence (to c. 600 c.e.)
2: The Aristocratic Era (600-1160)
3: Years of War (1160-1550)
4: Peace and Relative Isolation (1550-1868)
5: Entering the Modern World (1868-1912)
6: At War with the World (1912-1945)
7: Japan in the Postwar World (1945- )
Chonology
Notes
Further Reading
Web Sites
Index
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