A Companion to Japanese History
by Tsutsui, William M.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-20
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars. Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns. Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses. Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies.
Author Biography
William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988).
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | p. viii |
| Notes on Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Japan Before 1600 | p. 11 |
| Japanese Beginnings | p. 13 |
| The Heian Period | p. 30 |
| Medieval Japan | p. 47 |
| Early Modern Japan | p. 67 |
| Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule | p. 69 |
| Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan | p. 86 |
| Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan | p. 101 |
| Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan | p. 117 |
| Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration Through World War II | p. 137 |
| Restoration and Revolution | p. 139 |
| Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism | p. 156 |
| Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan | p. 172 |
| Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity Elise K. Tipton | p. 189 |
| External Relations | p. 207 |
| The Japanese Empire | p. 224 |
| The Fifteen-Year War | p. 241 |
| Japan since 1945 | p. 263 |
| The Occupation | p. 265 |
| Postwar Politics | p. 281 |
| The Postwar Japanese Economy | p. 299 |
| Postwar Society and Culture | p. 315 |
| Japan in the World | p. 333 |
| Themes in Japanese History | p. 349 |
| Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan | p. 351 |
| Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan | p. 372 |
| Class and Social Stratification | p. 389 |
| Japan in Asia | p. 407 |
| Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies | p. 424 |
| Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan | p. 443 |
| Popular Culture | p. 460 |
| Rural Japan and Agriculture | p. 477 |
| Business and Labor | p. 493 |
| Authority and the Individual | p. 511 |
| National Identity and Nationalism | p. 528 |
| Consolidated Bibliography | p. 545 |
| Index | p. 593 |
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