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Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience.

Since 1600 Japan has undergone three periods of wrenching social and institutional change, following the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society by the Tokugawa shogun; the opening of Japan's ports by Commodore Perry; and defeat in World War II. The...

Long recognized as an authority on Japanese history, Marius Jansen synthesizes a lifetime of scholarship in this landmark book. Bringing together the series of Brown and Haley lectures delivered in 1975 at the University of Puget Sound, Japan and Its World continues to be a source of insight for anyone interested in the changing ideas the Japanese have had of themselves, the United States, and the Western world during the past two centuries.

Bei den Mitte des 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. verfaten Commenta in Ciceronis Rhetorica des romischen Rhetorikprofessors Marius Victorinus handelt es sich um den einzigen vollstandig erhaltenen antiken Kommentar zum rhetorischen Jugendwerk Ciceros De inventione, das in Spatantike und Mittelalter zu den wichtigsten Handbuchern der Rhetorik gehorte. Die Bedeutung der Commenta manifestiert sich in der reichen handschriftlichen Uberlieferung (etwa 60 Textzeugen), die fur diese Edition erstmals vollstandig berucksichtigt ist. Dabei kommt eine bisher unbekannte italienische...

The results of the process of modernization which started in Japan in the 19th century and continues today are remarkable in history. This volume contains essays by leading scholars on Japan, including two important studies on the impact of modernization on the life of the country. It is the first in a series of five volumes that stems from the Association for Asian Studies' Conference on Modern Japan.

Originally published in 1965.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the...