ǂA ǂmodern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster. CONTENTS MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES PREFACE INDRODUCTION: ENDURING IMPRINTS OF THE LONGER PAST PART 1. CRISIS OF THE TOKUGAWA REGIME 1. The Tokugawa Polity Unification The Tokugawa Political Settlements 2. Social and Economic Transformations The Seventeenth-Century Boom Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality 3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime Cultural Diversity and Contradictions Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas 4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule Politics of Terror and Accommodation Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest PART 2. MODERN REVOLUTION, 1868–1905 5. The Samurai Revolution Programs of Nationalist Revolution Building a Rich Country Stances toward the World 6. Participation and Protest Political Discourse and Contention Movement for Freedom and People’s Rights Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions Participation for Women Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics The Meiji Constitution 7. Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations Landlords and Tenants Industrial Revolution The Work Force and Labor Conditions Spread of Mass and Higher Education Culture and Religion Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny 8. Empire and Domestic Order The Trajectory to Empire Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building The Turbulent World of Diet Politics The Era of Popular Protest Engineering Nationalism PART 3. IMPERIAL JAPAN FROM ASCENDANCE TO ASHES 9. Economy and Society Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life City Life: Middle and Working Classes Cultural Responses to Social Change 10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars The Emergence of Party Cabinets The Structure of Parliamentary Government Ideological Challenges Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers 11. The Depression Crisis and Responses Economic and Social Crisis Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad Toward a New Social and Economic Order Toward a New Political Order 12. Japan in Wartime Wider War in China Toward Pearl Harbor The Pacific War Mobilizing for Total War Living in the Shadow of War Ending the War Burdens and Legacies of War 13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures Bearing the Unbearable The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize Japanese Responses The Reverse Course Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? PART 4. POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, 1952–2000 14. Economic and Social Transformations The Postwar “Economic Miracle” Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era Differences Enduring and Realigned Managing Social Stability and Change Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change 15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era Political Struggles The Politics of Accommodation Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth 16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s New Roles in the World and New Tensions Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises Politics: The Conservative Heyday Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties 17. Beyond the Postwar Era The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy The End of LDP Hegemony The Economic Bubble Bursts The Japanese Disease at Century’s End? Issues for the Future APPENDIX A. PRIME MINISTERS OF JAPAN, 1885–2000 APPENDIX B. VOTE TOTALS AND SEATS BY PARTY, 1945–2000 LOWER HOUSE ELECTIONS NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Fourth Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.-- Provided by publisher