A companion to Japanese history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William M. Tsutsui

• Record Nr.: UNISA996213969903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007
• ISBN: 1-4051-9339-5; 1-281-32232-6; 1-78034-098-2; 9786611322328; 1-4051-6556-1; 0-470-75139-8; 0-470-75138-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (632 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to world history
• Altri autori (Persone): TsutsuiWilliam M
• Disciplina: 952
• Soggetti: Japan History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-592) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO JAPANESE HISTORY; Contents; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Japan before 1600; 1 Japanese Beginnings; 2 The Heian Period; 3 Medieval Japan; Part II Early Modern Japan; 4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule; 5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan; 6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan; 7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan; Part III Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration through World War II; 8 Restoration and Revolution; 9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism; 10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan; 11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity12 External Relations; 13 The Japanese Empire; 14 The Fifteen-Year War; Part IV Japan since 1945; 15 The Occupation; 16 Postwar Politics; 17 The Postwar Japanese Economy; 18 Postwar Society and Culture; 19 Japan in the World; Part V Themes in Japanese History; 20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan; 21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan; 22 Class and Social Stratification; 23 Japan in Asia; 24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies; 25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment ; in Japan; 26 Popular Culture; 27 Rural Japan and Agriculture28 Business and Labor; 29 Authority and the Individual; 30 National Identity and Nationalism; Consolidated Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history.Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholarsCombines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concernsSupplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analysesPresents stimulating interventions into individual controversies