A History of Japan, 1582–1941
Internal and External Worlds
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- Author: L. M. Cullen, Trinity College, Dublin
- Date Published: May 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521821551
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This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen argues that Japanese policies and fears have often been caricatured in western accounts which have viewed the expansion of the west in an unduly positive light. He shows that Japan before 1854, far from being in progressive economic and social decay or political crisis, was on balance a successful society led by rational policymakers. He also shows how when an external threat emerged after 1793 the country became on balance more open rather than more oppressive and that Japan displayed remarkable success in negotiation with the western powers in 1853–68. In the twentieth century, however, with the 1889 constitution failing to control the armed forces and western and American interests encroaching in Asia and the Pacific, Japan abandoned realism and met her nemesis in China and the Pacific.
Read more- Unique new account of four centuries of Japanese history
- Explores the internal and external pressures that culminated in 1941's attack on Pearl Harbor and the catastrophic defeat which followed
- Rejects traditional western interpretations of Japanese history
- Includes a glossary and extended bibliographical essay
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'The book reads like a piece of scholarly work from an earlier and more careful time, when historiography was the result of careful research and distilled knowledge by an author dedicated to the craft … Wonderfully fluid telling of a key historical era …' David McNeill, Irish Times
See more reviews'… a thought-provoking book, providing interesting information and interpretation …'. Reviews in History
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- Date Published: May 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521821551
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.72kg
- contains: 8 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 1582–1941
2. Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582–1689
3. The Japanese economy, 1688–1789
4. An age of stability: Japan's internal world in perspective, 1709–83
5. Prosperity amid crises, 1789–1853
6. Sakoku under pressure: the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s
7. Fashioning a state and a foreign policy, 1868–1919
8. From peace to war, 1919–41.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Modern Japan
- The Far East
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