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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Duus, Peter, 1933-
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1998.
Description:xv, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Japan -- History -- 1868-
Japan.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4828976
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Varying Form of Title:First ed. published as: Rise of modern Japan
ISBN:0395746043 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • I. The Fall of the Tokugawa Order, 1800–1868
  • 1. Late Tokugawa Society Cultural Unity and Diversity Class and Status
  • Community and Solidarity
  • Household and Gender Humans and Gods
  • 2. The Political Heritage Emperor, Shogun, and Daimyo
  • The Web of Government
  • The Samurai Elite Village Politics
  • The Bakufu and the Outside World
  • 3. Economic and Social Change Population Increase, Urbanization, and Demand
  • Agricultural Growth Proto-Industrialization Merchants and Markets
  • The Social Impact of Economic Growth
  • Economic Thought, Social Criticism, and Reform
  • 4. The Fall of the Old Order
  • The Treaty Settlements "Revere the Emperor and Expel the Barbarians"
  • The Meiji Restoration
  • II. The Pursuit of Wealth and Power, 1868–1905
  • 5. Revolution from Above
  • The Centralization of Power Tax Reform, Conscription, and Education
  • The End of the Samurai Class
  • The New Political Economy
  • "Civilization and Enlightenment
  • 6. Protest and Dissent Peasant
  • Riots and Samurai Rebellions
  • "Liberty and Popular Rights"
  • Toward Constitutional Government Conservative Countercurrents
  • 7. The Turn Toward Stability
  • Retrenchment and Deflation
  • The Bureaucratic State
  • The Meiji Constitution Education and Ideology
  • Reconstructing the Family
  • 8. The Rise of Imperialism
  • Post-Restoration Diplomacy
  • The Expansionist Impulse Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
  • The Russo-Japanese War Imperialism and Popular Nationalism
  • 9. The Beginnings of Industrialization
  • The Changing Countryside
  • The Industrial Revolution Entrepreneurship and Capital Business and Politics
  • The New Industrial Working Class Industrialization and the World Market
  • III. Political Change, Crisis and War, 1905–1945
  • 10. The Rise of Party Government
  • The Struggle Against Clique Government
  • The Expansion of Party Power
  • The Establishment of Party Rule
  • "Normal Constitutional Government" Democracy, Radicalism, and Dissent
  • 11. Economic Growth and Social Change Boom, Bust, and Stagnation
  • The Dual Structure Urban Labor Unrest
  • The Ailing Countryside Urbanization and Middle-Class Life
  • 12. The Empire Between the Wars
  • The Continental Commitment
  • The China Problem
  • The Washington Conference System
  • Army Discontent and The Manchurian Incident
  • 13. Militarism and War
  • The Shift to the Right Political Terror and Army Radicalism
  • The China Quagmire Economic Recovery
  • The "New Order" Movement
  • 14. The Pacific War
  • The Road to Pearl Harbor War in the Pacific
  • The Home Front
  • The Surrender of Japan
  • IV. Peace, Prosperity, and Stability, 1945–Present
  • 15. Occupation, Reform and Recovery Postwar
  • Japanese Society
  • The American Occupation
  • Demilitarization and Political Democratization
  • Democratizing Japanese Society
  • Education and Ideological Change The Shift to the Left
  • Reconstructing the Economy
  • 16. The Politics of Confrontation
  • The Peace Settlement
  • The "Reverse Course" Conservative Consolidation
  • The Security Treaty Crisis Toward Economism
  • 17. The Economic Miracle
  • The Bases of Rapid Growth
  • Corporate Capitalism "Middle Class Society" Urbanization
  • The Changing Countryside
  • 18. The Price of Affluence Building a Conservative Hegemony
  • The Divided Opposition
  • The Strains of Growth
  • The End of Rapid Growth
  • Restructuring the Economy
  • 19. The Conservative Resurgence Cultural Nationalism
  • The "New Conservatism"
  • "International Contribution"
  • Trade Friction
  • The Bubble Economy Women, Work and Family
  • 20. Japan in the 1990s
  • The Post-Bubble Economy
  • The End of LDP Hegemony
  • The Troubled Bureaucracy
  • The End of the Cold War
  • The New Asianism
  • The Post-Postwar Generation

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