When it comes to works of history, there are good books and great books and bad books. And then there are a rare few which examine a subject – oftentimes one covered before by innumerable others – in a way that is so unique and offers such groundbreaking insights in the process as to change complete...
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),...