Early Modern Japan

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Early Modern Japan

Author	: Conrad Totman
File Size	: 41,6 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of California Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 August 1995
ISBN	: 9780520203563
Pages	: 624 pages

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Early Modern Japan by Conrad Totman Book PDF Summary

This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.

Early Modern Japan by Conrad Totman

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A Concise History of Japan by Brett L. Walker

A comprehensive and engaging new history, charting Japan's development from its origins through to the present day.

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Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan by Mark Ravina

Examining local politics in three Japanese domains (Yonezawa, Tokushima, and Hirosaki), this book shows how warlords (daimyo) and their samurai adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic growth in the mid-Tokugawa period. The author has a dual purpose. The

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While the loss of sight—whether in early modern Japan or now—may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600–1868) could thrive because of disability. The blind of the era were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able

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Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan by Richard Rubinger

The focus of Richard Rubinger’s study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical exploration of the topic, the first in any language, Rubinger dispels the misconception that there are few materials available for the study

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Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow

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Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by William E. Deal

This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.

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Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan by John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West.

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