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UNINA9910818341003321 |
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Hillsborough Romulus |
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Samurai revolution : the dawn of modern Japan seen through the eyes of the shogun's last samurai / / Romulus Hillsborough |
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North Clarendon, Vermont : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (1020 p.) |
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Samurai - Japan - History |
Japan History Restoration, 1853-1870 |
Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; Introduction; Prologue; Book 1: The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853-1868); PART I: THE OUTSIDER; CHAPTER 1 The Beginning of the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu; CHAPTER 2 The Outsider; CHAPTER 3 The Nagasaki Naval Academy; CHAPTER 4 The Rise of Ii Naosuké; CHAPTER 5 The Transpacific Voyage-"... for the glory of the Japanese navy"; CHAPTER 6 Katsu Kaishū's San Francisco Experience; CHAPTER 7 The Onset of the Age of Terror; PART II: THE OUTSIDER STEPS IN; CHAPTER 8 A Brief Discussion on Bushidō; CHAPTER 9 "The Group of Four"; CHAPTER 10 Satsuma Han |
CHAPTER 11 The Commissioner and the OutlawCHAPTER 12 Chōshū's Yoshida Shōin and Takasugi Shinsaku; CHAPTER 13 "Went up to the castle"; CHAPTER 14 Chōshū on the Brink; CHAPTER 15 "... along came Saigō"; PART III: THE OUTSIDER STEPS BACK; CHAPTER 16 "unexpected folly"; CHAPTER 17 The Road to Revolution: The Rise of Takasugi Shinsaku's Rebel Army; CHAPTER 18 Rumors of Tyranny: The Bakufu Gone Awry; CHAPTER 19 The Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance; CHAPTER 20 "The Bakufu ... must willingly fall"; CHAPTER 21 Peace Talks with Chōshū; CHAPTER 22 The Shōgun, the Emperor, and the Opposition at Court |
CHAPTER 23 Yoshinobu Scores a VictoryCHAPTER 24 Gathering Forces |
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in the "Great Drama"; CHAPTER 25 The Restoration of Imperial Rule and the End of the Tokugawa Bakufu; Book 2: The Rise of Imperial Japan (1868-1878); PART IV: THE OUTSIDER TAKES CONTROL; CHAPTER 26 Civil War; CHAPTER 27 Yoshinobu Capitulates; CHAPTER 28 Kaishū vs. Saigō (1): The Challenge; CHAPTER 29 Kaishū vs. Saigō (2): The Messenger; CHAPTER 30 Kaishū vs. Saigō (3): The Talks; CHAPTER 31 The Surrender of Edo Castle; PART V: THE OUTSIDER AND THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT; CHAPTER 32 "an abomination" |
CHAPTER 33 The End of the Boshin War and the Onset of the Meiji EraCHAPTER 34 Saigō and the Meiji Government (1): The Return; CHAPTER 35 Saigō and the Meiji Government (2): The Departure; CHAPTER 36 Samurai Revolt, Foreign Adventure; CHAPTER 37 Saigō and the Meiji Government (3): The Rebellion; Epilogue The Shōgun's Last Samurai; Appendix On the Value of Katsu Kaishū's Histories, Biographies, and Memoirs; Glossary; Main Characters; Important Feudal Domains; Important Japanese Terms; Sources from Katsu Kaishū; Abbreviations of Sources Cited; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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Japan's dramatic rise from a political backwater to a great power; an inside look at the men and their times that shaped a nation.Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's transformation from a backward country of feudal lords and samurai under the control of the shogun into a modern industrialized nation under the unifying rule of the Emperor. Japan's modern revolution spanned the third-quarter of the nineteenth century; knowledge of this history is essential to understand how and why Japan evolved into the nation it is today.Samurai Revol |
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UNINA9911035875103321 |
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Small, Albion Woodbury <1854-1926> |
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Piccole e grandi città / Albion Small, George Vincent ; prefazione di Raffaele Rauty |
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