A companion to Japanese history
By: edited by William M. Tsutsui
Edition: pbk ed.
Series: Blackwell companions to world history
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9781405193399
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-592) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of maps --; title: Notes on contributors --; title: Introduction  -- William M. Tsutsui -- pt. 1.; title: Japan before 1600 -- -- 1.; title: Japanese beginnings  -- Mark J. Hudson -- 2. The; title: Heian period  -- G. Cameron Hurst III -- 3.; title: Medieval Japan  -- Andrew Edmund Goble -- pt. 2.; title: Early modern Japan -- -- 4.; title: Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule  -- Philip C. Brown -- 5.; title: Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan  -- Edward E. Pratt -- 6.; title: Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan  -- Peter Nosco -- 7.; title: Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan  -- Lawrence E. Marceau -- pt. 3.; title: Modern Japan : from the Meiji restoration through World War II -- -- 8.; title: Restoration and revolution  -- James L. Huffman -- 9.; title: Oligarchy, democracy, and fascism  -- Stephen S. Large -- 10.; title: Social and economic change in prewar Japan  -- Mark Jones -- and -- Steven Ericson -- 11.; title: Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity  -- Elise K. Tipton -- 12.; title: External relations  -- Frederick R. Dickinson -- 13. The; title: Japanese empire  -- Y. Tak Matsusaka -- 14. The; title: fifteen-year war -- W. Miles Fletcher III; title: pt. 4.; title: Japan since 1945 -- -- 15. The; title: occupation  -- Mark Metzler -- 16.; title: Postwar politics  -- Ray Christensen -- 17. The; title: postwar Japanese economy  -- Bai Gao -- 18.; title: Postwar society and culture  -- Wesley Sasaki-Uemura -- 19. Japan in the world / -- Glenn D. Hook -- pt. 5.; title: Themes in Japanese history -- -- 20.; title: Women and sexuality in premodern Japan  -- Hitomi Tonomura -- 21.; title: Gender and sexuality in modern Japan  -- Sally A. Hastings -- 22.; title: Class and social stratification  -- Ian Neary -- 23.; title: Japan in Asia  -- Leo Ching -- 24.; title: Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies  -- Michael Lewis -- 25.; title: Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan  -- Gavan McCormack -- 26.; title: Popular culture  -- E. Taylor Atkins -- 27.; title: Rural Japan and agriculture  -- Eric C. Rath -- 28.; title: Business and labor  -- Charles Weathers -- 29.; title: Authority and the individual  -- J. Victor Koschmann -- 30.; title: National identity and nationalism  -- Kevin M. Doak; title: Consolidated bibliography --; title: Index.