Samurai to soldier : remaking military service in nineteenth-century Japan /

Samurai to soldier : remaking military service in nineteenth-century Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jaundrill, D. Colin, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subject:	Draft -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. Samurai -- History -- 19th century. Recruiting and enlistment. Draft. Samurai. Japan -- History, Military -- 19th century. Japan -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. -- History -- 19th century. Japan. Military history. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11407108

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ISBN:	9781501706646 1501706640 9781501706097 1501706098 9781501703096 1501703099
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 25, 2016). Print version record.
Summary:	In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan's efforts to save itself from the imperial ambitions of the West and set the country on the path to great power status. Jaundrill argues, to the contrary, that the conscript army of the Meiji period was the culmination--and not the beginning--of a long process of experimentation with military organization and technology. Jaundrill traces the radical changes to Japanese military institutions, as well as the on-field consequences of military reforms in his accounts of the Boshin War (1868-1869) and the Satsuma Rebellions of 1877. He shows how pre-1868 developments laid the foundations for the army that would secure Japan's Asian empire.
Other form:	Print version: Jaundrill, D. Colin, 1980- Samurai to soldier. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501703096
Standard no.:	10.7591/9781501706097

Table of Contents:

The rise of "western" musketry, 1841-1860
Rising tensions and renewed reform, 1860-1866
The drives to build a federal army, 1866-1872
Instituting universal military service, 1873-1876
Dress rehearsal : the Satsuma rebellion, 1877
Organizational reform and the creation of the serviceman, 1878-1894.