Among the revolutionary movements which shook the nineteenth-century world, the change of government in Japan in 1868 occupies a special place. A new, dynamic ruling class provoked the overthrow of the old rule of the shogun and in afew years the visible structure of feudal society disappeared. The nature of this transformation has been regarded by western historians as ""revolution"" and ""restoration"" ‘ two quite contradictory ideas. But in this book Paul Akamatsu clarifies the picture of the forces at work in this conversion of a backward feudal state into a modern power in a few decades.
- ISBN: 978-0-415-58526-2
- Editorial: Routledge
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 346
- Fecha Publicación: 07/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés