A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present

Gordon, Andrew 1952- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780199930159 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0199930155 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-388) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime. 1. The Tokugawa Polity. 2. Social and Economic Transformations. 3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa. 4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa -- Pt. 2. Modern Revolution, 1868-1905. 5. The Samurai Revolution. 6. Participation and Protest. 7. Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations. 8. Empire and Domestic Order -- Pt. 3. Imperial Japan from Ascendance to Ashes. 9. Economy and Society. 10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars. 11. The Depression Crisis and Responses. 12. Japan in Wartime. 13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures -- Pt. 4. Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000. 14. Economic and Social Transformations. 15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era. 16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s. 17. Beyond the Postwar Era -- App. A. Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2001.