A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
by:
Andrew Gordon (author)
In this sweeping narrative, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. Gordon takes us from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel...
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In this sweeping narrative, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. Gordon takes us 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, c
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B004H3W3Y2
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
War,
Politics,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
This book does an excellent job outlining and giving a reasonable study to several periods in Japanese history as well as into the early 2000 modern history. It is divided into four time periods: Late Feudal Period under the Tokugawa Regime (more specifically the Edo period), Meiji era (1868-1905),...
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