PART ONE: BACKGROUND -- 1. Geography and Climate -- 2. The Human Legacy -- 3. Early Modern Japan: An Overview -- PART TWO: THE ERA OF PACIFICATION, 1570-1630 -- 4. The Politics of Pacification -- 5. The Economics of Pacification -- 6. Culture and Pacification -- PART THREE: THE TOKUGAWA HEYDAY, 1630-1710 -- 7. The Politics of Order -- 8. Economic Growth and Change -- 9. The Blossoming of Political Thought -- 10. Aesthetics and the Rise of Ukiyo -- 11. Ecological Trends: The Period of Growth -- PART FOUR: STRUGGLING TO STAND STILL, 1710-1790 -- 12. Ecological Trends: The Period of Stasis (I) -- 13. Ecological Trends: The Period of Stasis (II) -- 14. Yoshimune and the Kyōhō Reform -- 15. The Politics of Stasis, 1751-1790 -- 16. Thought and Society: The Eighteenth Century -- 17. The Later Years of Early Tokugawa Arts and Letters -- PART FIVE: THE EROSION OF STABILITY, 1790-1850 -- 18. Later Tokugawa Arts and Letters -- 19. Thought and Society, 1790-1850 -- 20. The Best of Times, 1790-1825 -- 21. The Worst of Times, 1825-1850 -- Epilogue: Breaking Up and Breaking Out, 1850-1870 |