Modern Japan
Subtitle: a social and political history
By: Elise K. Tipton
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series; Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780415418706; 9780415418713; 9780203928851
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tokugawa background : the ideal and the real; title: The mid-century crisis; title: The early Meiji revolution; title: The 1880s and 1890s : defining a Japanese national identity; title: Late Meiji : an end and a beginning; title: An emerging mass society; title: Contesting the modern in the 1930s; title: The dark valley; title: 'Enduring the unendurable' and starting over in the 'new' Japan; title: Conflict and consensus in the 1950s; title: The 'economic miracle'; title: and its underside; title: The 'rich country'; title: The 'lost decade'; title: Whither Japan?