The New Cambridge History of Japan
The New Cambridge History of Japan
$160.00
USDThis major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan's shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history.
- Includes the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship
- Addresses key trends in modern Japanese history
- Accessible and highly readable volume for students, scholars and more general readers
Product details
August 2023Hardback
9781107196131
860 pages
235 × 161 × 43 mm
1.41kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: placing modern Japanese history in the twenty-first century Laura Hein
- Part I. Political sovereignty: centers and margins:
- 1. The transformative politics of the Meiji revolutions Eiko Maruko Siniawer
- 2. Japan and its margins: Okinawa, Hokkaido, Korea, Taiwan from the Meiji to the postwar period Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi and Asano section trans. Yu Conrad Hirano
- 3. The Asia–Pacific War Yuki Tanaka
- 4. Japan's postwar subordination to the United States and its structure of dual authority Koseki Shōichi and Trans. Alexandra De Leon
- 5. The politics of citizenship in postwar Japan: Korean identity, and immigrant rights Erin Aeran Chung
- 6. The struggle to protect individual rights in postwar Japan: seven decades of progress Lawrence Repeta
- 7. Japan's decline: the Heisei Era (1989–2019) in world history Yoshimi Shunya and Trans. John Person
- Part II. Environment, economy, and technology:
- 8. Japan: the arc of industrialization Mark Metzler
- 9. Japan's agriculture, the Empire, and postwar reconstruction Hiromi Mizuno
- 10. Building Japan's oil empire Brett L. Walker
- 11. Japan's transwar political economy Andrew Gordon
- 12. The Japanese economy: shifts in eras 1980–2000 Edward J. Lincoln
- Part II. Social practices and cultures in modern Japan:
- 13. From status to gender in Meiji Japan Marnie S. Anderson
- 14. The modern Japanese metropolis, 1868–1970 Jordan Sand
- 15. Modern Japan's regional cultures Tessa Morris-Suzuki
- 16. Social experiences of war and occupation in twentieth-century Japan Masuda Hajimu
- 17. Locating social movements in Japan's long twentieth century Franziska Seraphim
- 18. Burakumin and human rights Ian Neary
- 19. Japanese mass media Tsuchiya Reiko and Trans. Michele M. Mason
- 20. Perceiving Japan: Japonismes east and west, 1860s–1960s Christopher Reed
- 21. Popular culture in modern Japan Michele M. Mason
- 22. Modern art in Japan and transnational exchange Asato Ikeda
- 23. A history of mentalities in modern Japan: premonitions of anxiety in economic prosperity in the early 1970s Narita Ryūichi and Mark Pendleton.
