A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External WorldsThis 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan. |
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Contents
Introduction Japans internal and external worlds 15821941 | 1 |
Japan and its Chinese and European worlds 15821689 | 18 |
The Japanese economy 16881789 | 63 |
An age of stability Japans internal world 17091783 in perspective | 95 |
Prosperity amid crises 17891853 | 135 |
Sakoku under pressure the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s | 175 |
Fashioning a state and a foreign policy Japan 18681919 | 205 |
From peace Versailles 1919 to war Pearl Harbor 1941 | 239 |
Tokugawa shoguns | 293 |
Main regnal periods | 294 |
Glossary | 295 |
| 302 | |
Bibliography | 321 |
| 346 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds |
| Authors | L. M. Cullen, Louis Michael Cullen |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521529182, 9780521529181 |
| Length | 357 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Asia / General History / Asia / Japan History / Europe / Renaissance History / Modern / 20th Century History / Modern / General |
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