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The New Cambridge History of Japan

Volume 3. The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century

  • Editor: Laura Hein, Northwestern University, Illinois
Laura Hein, Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi, Yuki Tanaka, Koseki Shōichi, Erin Aeran Chung, Lawrence Repeta, Yoshimi Shunya, Mark Metzler, Hiromi Mizuno, Brett L. Walker, Andrew Gordon, Edward J. Lincoln, Marnie S. Anderson, Jordan Sand, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Masuda Hajimu, Franziska Seraphim, Ian Neary, Tsuchiya Reiko, Christopher Reed, Michele M. Mason, Asato Ikeda, Narita Ryūichi, Mark Pendleton
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  • Date Published: June 2023
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107196131

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  • This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan's shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history.

    • Includes the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship
    • Addresses key trends in modern Japanese history
    • Accessible and highly readable volume for students, scholars and more general readers
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    • Date Published: June 2023
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107196131
    • length: 860 pages
    • dimensions: 235 x 161 x 43 mm
    • weight: 1.38kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: placing modern Japanese history in the twenty-first century Laura Hein
    Part I. Political sovereignty: centers and margins:
    1. The transformative politics of the Meiji revolutions Eiko Maruko Siniawer
    2. Japan and its margins: Okinawa, Hokkaido, Korea, Taiwan from the Meiji to the postwar period Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi and Asano section trans. Yu Conrad Hirano
    3. The Asia–Pacific War Yuki Tanaka
    4. Japan's postwar subordination to the United States and its structure of dual authority Koseki Shōichi and Trans. Alexandra De Leon
    5. The politics of citizenship in postwar Japan: Korean identity, and immigrant rights Erin Aeran Chung
    6. The struggle to protect individual rights in postwar Japan: seven decades of progress Lawrence Repeta
    7. Japan's decline: the Heisei Era (1989–2019) in world history Yoshimi Shunya and Trans. John Person
    Part II. Environment, economy, and technology:
    8. Japan: the arc of industrialization Mark Metzler
    9. Japan's agriculture, the Empire, and postwar reconstruction Hiromi Mizuno
    10. Building Japan's oil empire Brett L. Walker
    11. Japan's transwar political economy Andrew Gordon
    12. The Japanese economy: shifts in eras 1980–2000 Edward J. Lincoln
    Part II. Social practices and cultures in modern Japan:
    13. From status to gender in Meiji Japan Marnie S. Anderson
    14. The modern Japanese metropolis, 1868–1970 Jordan Sand
    15. Modern Japan's regional cultures Tessa Morris-Suzuki
    16. Social experiences of war and occupation in twentieth-century Japan Masuda Hajimu
    17. Locating social movements in Japan's long twentieth century Franziska Seraphim
    18. Burakumin and human rights Ian Neary
    19. Japanese mass media Tsuchiya Reiko and Trans. Michele M. Mason
    20. Perceiving Japan: Japonismes east and west, 1860s–1960s Christopher Reed
    21. Popular culture in modern Japan Michele M. Mason
    22. Modern art in Japan and transnational exchange Asato Ikeda
    23. A history of mentalities in modern Japan: premonitions of anxiety in economic prosperity in the early 1970s Narita Ryūichi and Mark Pendleton.

  • Editor

    Laura Hein, Northwestern University, Illinois
    Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History at Northwestern University, is a specialist on twentieth-century Japan in its international context.

    Contributors

    Laura Hein, Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi, Yuki Tanaka, Koseki Shōichi, Erin Aeran Chung, Lawrence Repeta, Yoshimi Shunya, Mark Metzler, Hiromi Mizuno, Brett L. Walker, Andrew Gordon, Edward J. Lincoln, Marnie S. Anderson, Jordan Sand, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Masuda Hajimu, Franziska Seraphim, Ian Neary, Tsuchiya Reiko, Christopher Reed, Michele M. Mason, Asato Ikeda, Narita Ryūichi, Mark Pendleton

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