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Japan From Shogun To Superstate
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Download or read book Japan written by Stuart Fewster and published by RoutledgeCurzon. This book was released on 1988 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of this comprehensive textbook is a clear narrative account of Japanese history from the days of the shogun to the present. The second half is devoted to thematic chapters which trace developments in Japanese history; this context is then put to use in interpreting the current situation in Japan in the context of past events.
Book Synopsis War and State Building in Medieval Japan by : John A. Ferejohn
Download or read book War and State Building in Medieval Japan written by John A. Ferejohn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and 17th centuries. This book, which brings Japan's case into conversation with the history of state building in Europe, points to similar factors that were present in both places: population growth eroded clientelistic relationships between farmers and estate holders, creating conditions for intense competition over territory; and in the ensuing instability and violence, farmers were driven to make Hobbesian bargains of taxes in exchange for physical security.
Book Synopsis Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas by : Stephen A. Wurm
Download or read book Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas written by Stephen A. Wurm and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 1903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Book Synopsis Japan Meets the World by : John R. Roberson
Download or read book Japan Meets the World written by John R. Roberson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the days of the Shoguns in the sixteenth century and their first forays into trade with western countries, Japan's unique and rich culture was revealed to the world. Through various stages of progress and isolationism, author John Roberson explores Japan's history up to the present day. This book, originally published in 1985 with the title JAPAN: From Shogun to Sony, was very well-received and tells the story of Japan's rise to world power in a clear narrative voice that makes for fascinating reading and paints a vivid picture of Japanese life and culture. This edition has been updated through the 1998 Winter Olympic games in Nagano, and the current Asian economic crisis.
Book Synopsis Japan's Emergence as a Modern State by : E. Herbert Norman
Download or read book Japan's Emergence as a Modern State written by E. Herbert Norman and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographie Mensuelle by : United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland)
Download or read book Bibliographie Mensuelle written by United Nations Library (Geneva, Switzerland) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japan: the New Superstate by : Nobutaka Ike
Download or read book Japan: the New Superstate written by Nobutaka Ike and published by W.H. Freeman. This book was released on 1973 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State of War written by Thomas Conlan and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
Book Synopsis The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture by : James C. Baxter
Download or read book The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture written by James C. Baxter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Credit for the swift unification of Japan following the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate is usually given to the national leaders who instigated the coup and formed the new Meiji government. But is brilliant leadership at the top sufficient to explain how regional separatist tendencies and loyalties to the old lords were overcome in the formation of a nationally unified state? On the contrary, argues James C. Baxter. Though plans were drawn up by policy makers in Tokyo, the efforts of citizens all over the country were required to implement these plans and create a sense of national identity among local populations. Drawing on extensive archival resources, Baxter describes the transformation of the Tokugawa domain of Kaga into the Meiji prefecture of Ishikawa. The result is a richly detailed study that helps explain how Japan achieved national unity without the bloody struggles that have often accompanied modernization and nation-building."
Book Synopsis Voices of Early Modern Japan by : Constantine Vaporis
Download or read book Voices of Early Modern Japan written by Constantine Vaporis and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600–1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 17th century to the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the mid-19th century opening of Japan by the West. Through close examinations of sources from a time known as "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era—its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources come from all levels of Japanese society, everything from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, all carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship.
Book Synopsis Living Arts of Japan by : John Reeve
Download or read book Living Arts of Japan written by John Reeve and published by Jensen. This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese arts and the West - Roots of Japanese culture - Westerners in Japan - Japonisme: Western artists and Japanese prints - Woodblock printing - Night and day - Calligraphy - Origami - Pottery (Raku) - Tea Ceremony - Leach and Hamada - Porcelain - Ceramics - Samurai and swords - Sumo and martial arts - Clothes - Theatre - Architecture - Gardens - Music - Food and drink.
Book Synopsis Origins of the Modern Japanese State by : E. Herbert Norman
Download or read book Origins of the Modern Japanese State written by E. Herbert Norman and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brief History of Japan by : Jonathan Clements
Download or read book Brief History of Japan written by Jonathan Clements and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a divine sovereign. It was the terminus of the Silk Road, the furthest end of the known world, a fertile source of inspiration for European artists, and an enduring symbol of the mysterious East. In recent times, it has become a powerhouse of global industry, a nexus of popular culture, and a harbinger of post-industrial decline. With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests. Among the chapters in this Japanese history book are: The Way of the Gods: Prehistoric and Mythical Japan A Game of Thrones: Minamoto vs. Taira Time Warp: 200 Years of Isolation The Stench of Butter: Restoration and Modernization The New Breed: The Japanese Miracle
Book Synopsis An Exhibition of Information Resources on Japan by : Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan). Toshoshitsu
Download or read book An Exhibition of Information Resources on Japan written by Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan). Toshoshitsu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Japan Foundation Newsletter by :
Download or read book The Japan Foundation Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Company and the Shogun by : Adam Clulow
Download or read book The Company and the Shogun written by Adam Clulow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.
Book Synopsis Japan Under the Shoguns, 1185-1868 by : Mavis Pilbeam
Download or read book Japan Under the Shoguns, 1185-1868 written by Mavis Pilbeam and published by Steck-Vaughn. This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of Japan during the nearly 700 years when the country was under the rule of military warlords, or shoguns.
