The Japanese Experience
Subtitle: A Short History of Japan (History of Civilisation)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780520225602
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Ethnic studies; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Japan; Asia - Japan; History / General; Ethnic Studies - General
Description: "The Japanese Experience is an authoritative, lucid, and concise history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day. It is the history of a society and a culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times (until the twentieth century) and the home of the longest-reigning imperial dynasty that still survives.

Regarded as a minor Asian state until the late nineteenth century, Japan transformed itself into a major power in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET. "Throughout The Japanese Experience W. G. Beasley, a leading authority on Japan and the author of a number of acclaimed works on Japanese history, examines the changing society and culture of Japan and considers what, apart from the land and the people, is specifically Japanese about the history of Japan."--BOOK JACKET.