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Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)
Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)

Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)

Author: 
James L. Huffman
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  • A mixture of textual and visual documents, including literature, diaries, art, and pop culture, build a textured history of modern Japan
  • Lucid narrative ties the documents together
  • Documents are ideal length for classroom discussion
  • Inviting to visually-oriented students
  • Picture essay "The Old Order Topples: 1853-68"

  
Employing a wide range of primary source materials, Modern Japan: A History in Documents provides a colorful narrative of Japan's development since 1600. A variety of diary entries, letters, legal documents, and poems brings to life the early modern years, when Japan largely shut itself off from the outside world. A picture essay highlights the tumultuous decade and a half following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and the U.S. Navy in 1853, which led to unprecedented changes and a new government. The dramatic rush to modernity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, accompanied by Japan's entry into the imperialist rivalry, is seen through travel accounts, novelists' recollections, and imperial rescripts, while editorial cartoons and prison memoirs recount the major early twentieth century rush, first toward pluralism, then toward war. Japan's recovery after World War II to become one of the world's most vibrant democracies and its second largest economy is chronicled through records as diverse as a funeral eulogy, a comic book description of Adam Smith's economic theories, and an internet musing. The documents are woven together in a lively narrative that brings to life one of the modern world's most remarkable national stories.

This new edition includes an updated introduction with a note on sources and interpretation, extensive revision of Chapter 1: The Land of Shogun and Daimyo, eleven new documents, seven new sidebars, seven new images, and updated further reading and websites. It revises the interpretation of the Tokugawa period; adds new material on Japanese imperialism, especially its expansion into Korea; has more emphasis on the place of minorities in modern society; quotes additional fiction and other literature; updates the most recent material to include the last 15 years of history; and adds some new editorial cartoons from the Meiji and Taisho eras, a rare 19th century photo from the Meiji era, and archival maps.

Index: 

What is a Document?
How to Read a Document
Introduction
Note on 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

About the author: 

James L. Huffman: H. Orth Hirt Professor of History emeritus, Wittenberg University; author, Japan in World History (OUP, 2009), A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan (University of Hawai'I Press, 1987), Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi En'ichiro (University of Hawaii Press, 1980); editor, Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism (Garland, 1997)

Product details

ISBN : 9780195392531

Author: 
James L. Huffman
Pages
160 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
254 x 203 mm
Pub date
Oct 2010
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Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)

Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)

Modern Japan: A History in Documents (2nd edition)