A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds / Edition 1

by L. M. Cullen

Overview

Offering a distinctive overview of the pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan, Louis Cullen rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography and combines economic, social, and political approaches to create a powerful analysis. Cullen reviews the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war, to present an island nation that is a growing industrial power with little perception of its worldwide context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521529181
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

L. M. Cullen is Professor of Modern Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Centre for Japanese Culture, Kyoto.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 1582–1941; 2. Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582–1689; 3. The Japanese economy, 1688–1789; 4. An age of stability: Japan's internal world in perspective, 1709–83; 5. Prosperity amid crises, 1789–1853; 6. Sakoku under pressure: the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s; 7. Fashioning a state and a foreign policy, 1868–1919; 8. From peace to war, 1919–41.

Editorial Reviews

'The book reads like a piece of scholarly work from an earlier and more careful time, when historiography was the result of careful research and distilled knowledge by an author dedicated to the craft … Wonderfully fluid telling of a key historical era …' David McNeill, Irish Times

'… a thought-provoking book, providing interesting information and interpretation …'. Reviews in History

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