The New Cambridge History of Japan

Table of Contents

Introduction: Genealogies of Japanese early modernity David L. Howell
Part I. The Character of the Early Modern State:
1. The end of civil war and the formation of the early modern state in Japan Morgan Pitelka
2. Politics and political thought in the mature early modern state in Japan, 1650–1830 Kiri Paramore
3. Regional authority during the Tokugawa period David L. Howell
4. Tokugawa philosophy: a socio-historical introduction Federico Marcon
5. Foreign relations and coastal defense under the mature Tokugawa regime Robert Hellyer
6. The Meiji restoration Mark Ravina
Part II. Economy, Environment and Technology:
7. International economy and Japan at the dawn of the early modern era Adam Clulow
8. The Tokugawa economy: of rulers, producers and consumers Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Komuro Masamichi
9. The pacific context of Japan's environmental history Brett L. Walker
10. Scientific communities and the emergence of science in early modern Japan Yulia Frumer
11. The problem of western knowledge in late Tokugawa Japan Hansun Hsiung
12. Technology, military reform and warfare in the Tokugawa–Meiji transition D. Colin Jaundrill
Part III. Social Practices and Cultures of Early Modern Japan:
13. Religion in the Tokugawa period Mark Teeuwen
14. The medical revolution in early modern Japan Susan L. Burns
15. Flows of people and things in early modern Japan: print culture Laura Nenzi
16. Labor and migration in Tokugawa Japan: moving people Amy Stanley
17. The Tokugawa status order Maren Ehlers
18. On the peripheries of the Japanese archipelago: Ryukyu and Hokkaido David L. Howell
19. The early modern city in Japan Thomas Gaubatz
20. Popular movements in early modern Japan: petitions, riots, martyrs Anne Walthall
21. Civilization and enlightenment in early Meiji Japan Amin Ghadimi.

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