Title: A history of Japan :
Authors: Henshall, Kenneth G.
Date: 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Physical description: xiv, 288 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC class: D
Abstract: Covering the full sweep of Japanese history, from ancient to contemporary, Henshall explores Japan's enormous impact on the modern world, and how vital it is to examine the past and culture of the country in order to full understand its achievements and responses. Now in its third edition, this book is usefully updated and revised. - Publisher.
Contents: Contents note continued: 3.1.Stability Equals Survival: Establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate -- 3.2.Samurai and Ethics -- 3.3.Commoners, Culture, and the Economy -- 3.4.The Return of the Foreign Devils and the Fall of the Shogunate -- Review of Part Three -- pt. Four Building a Modern Nation: The Meiji Period (1868-1912) -- 4.1.Consolidating the Restoration -- 4.2.The Westernisation of Society -- 4.3.Harnessing the Energies of the People -- 4.4.Moves towards Democracy - of Sorts -- 4.5.War and Politics -- 4.6.Guided Economic Development -- 4.7.An Era Comes to an End -- Review of Part Four -- pt. Five The Excesses of Ambition: The Pacific War and its Lead-Up -- 5.1.The Fragile Democracy of Taisho (1912-26) -- 5.2.A Troubled Start to Showa -- 5.3.The Ideologies Behind Expansionism -- 5.4.Preparations for War -- 5.5.The Pacific War -- Review of Part Five -- pt. Six A Phoenix from the Ashes: Postwar Successes and Beyond -- 6.1.American Dreams for a New Japan -- Contents note continued: 6.2.Cold War Realities Reshape the Dreams -- 6.3.Becoming Number One -- 6.4.A Superpower under Siege - and a Bubble -- Review of Part Six -- pt. Seven A Superpower Adrift: The Heisei Years -- 7.1.The Bursting of the Bubble -- 7.2.A Political Merry-Go-Round -- 7.3.Life in Global Age Japan -- Review of Part Seven.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2004.