The Rise of Modern Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415851527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 308 str.

William G. Beasley

Opis

It is now generally recognized that Japan has been much the most successful of the countries outside Europe and North America in achieving modernization. The transformation from a feudal society with a Confucian ethic to a 'modern, Western style economy' is charted in this book (originally published in 1990) which follows the political, economic and social changes from the decline of the Tokugawa in the 1860s all the way through to the death of Emperor Hirohito and the end of the Showa era in 1989.

Spis treści

1. The Tokugawa Legacy  2. Western Challenge, Japanese Response  3. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa, 1860-1868  4. Building a Modern State, 1868-1894  5. The Meiji Emperor and the Meiji Constitution, 1873-1904  6. Cultural Borrowing, 1860-1912  7. Industrialization: the First Phase, 1860-1930  8. Capitalism and Domestic Politics, 1890-1930  9. Independence and Empire, 1873-1919  10. Soldiers and Patriots, 1918-1933  11. The New Order in Japan, 1931-1945  12. An Empire Won and Lost, 1937-1945  13. Military Occupation, 1945-1952  14. Conservative Democracy and the American Alliance, 1951-1972  15. The Economic Miracle  16. The End of the Showa Era, 1971-1989

O autorze

William Beasley