This work describes Japan's development since the early 1600s through the words and pictures of those who lived it. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources-student essays, editorial cartoons, novelists' complaints, diary entries, government documents, and travel accounts, to name a few, Modern Japan: A History in Documents narrates Japan's movement from the self-contained days of the seventeenth-century to the country's intense engagement with the world in the last two centuries. The documents are woven together by a narrative that explains their place in the national story. INDICE: What is a Document?; How to Read a Document; Introduction; Noteon Sources and Interpretation; 1.: The Land of Shogun and Daimyo; A New Order; Reordering the World; Life Under the Tokugawa; The Shogunate Under Challenge; 2.: Picture Essay: The Old Order Topples: 1853-68; Japan's Sense of the World; Perry's Arrival; A Land in Transition; Symbols of Change; Tumultuous Times;Demise of a Domain Lord; 3.: Confronting the Modern World: 1868-89; Envisioning a New World; Creating a New World; A New Society; 4.: Turning Outward: 1890-1912; Rising Nationalism; An Expansionist Turn; A Modern, Urban Society; 5.: Imperial Democracy, 1912-30; Modern Times; Reining in Diversity; 6.: The Dark Era: 1930-45; The Militarist Turn; War; 7.: The Reemergence: 1945-70; An Occupied Land; The Return to Normal Life; The Reemergence; 8.: Japan as a World Power after 1970; Surmounting Crises; Awash in Capital; Toward a New Century; Timeline; Further Reading; Websites; Text Credits; Picture Credits; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539252-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés