Japan's local pragmatists : the transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki region /
Author / Creator: | Waters, Neil L., 1945- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1983. |
Description: | x, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs 105 |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/563427 |
Summary: | Japanese local history is used as an ingredient in historiographical theories designed to prove that the rapid pace of change in Japan led either to phenomenal success or to dismal failure. Against the backdrop of a comprehensive overview of Japanese historiography, Neil Waters examines in detail the local politics of the Kawasaki region during the late nineteenth century. Historians have hitherto focused primarily upon those regions that experienced violent peasant uprisings, class conflict, or extreme government repression. He points out that localities which survived the transition between governments without violence far outnumber those marked by open struggle. |
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Item Description: | Includes index. |
Physical Description: | x, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [159]-167. |
ISBN: | 0674471926 067447192X |