The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 15801877 (New Cambridge History of Japan, 2)

This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of early modern Japan. The period from about 1580 to 1877 saw the reunification of Japan after a long period of civil war, followed by two and a half centuries of peace and stability under the Tokugawa shogunate, and closing with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which laid the foundation for a modern nation-state. With essays from leading international scholars, this volume emphasizes Japan's place in global history and pays close attention to gender and environmental history. It introduces readers to recent scholarship in fields including social history, the history of science and technology, intellectual history, and book history. Drawing on original research, each chapter situates its primary source material and novel arguments in the context of close engagement with secondary scholarship in a range of languages. The volume underlines the importance of Japan in the global early modern world. Contents Figures Maps Tables List of Contributors to Volume II Preface Introduction: Genealogies of Japanese Early Modernity PART I: THE CHARACTER OF THE EARLY MODERN STATE 1 The End of Civil War and the Formation of the Early Modern State in Japan 2 Politics and Political Thought in the Mature Early Modern State in Japan, 1650–1830 3 Regional Authority during the Tokugawa Period 4 Tokugawa Philosophy: A Socio-Historical Introduction 5 Foreign Relations and Coastal Defense under the Mature Tokugawa Regime 6 The Meiji Restoration PART II: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY 7 International Economy and Japan at the Dawn of the Early Modern Era 8 The Tokugawa Economy: Of Rulers, Producers, and Consumers 9 The Pacific Context of Japan’s Environmental History 10 Scientific Communities and the Emergence of Science in Early Modern Japan 11 The Problem of Western Knowledge in Late Tokugawa Japan 12 Technology, Military Reform, and Warfare in the Tokugawa-Meiji Transition PART III: SOCIAL PRACTICES AND CULTURES OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN 13 Religion in the Tokugawa Period 14 The Medical Revolution in Early Modern Japan 15 Flows of People and Things in Early Modern Japan: Print Culture 16 Labor and Migration in Tokugawa Japan: Moving People 17 The Tokugawa Status Order 18 On the Peripheries of the Japanese Archipelago: Ryukyu and Hokkaido 19 The Early Modern City in Japan 20 Popular Movements in Early Modern Japan: Petitions, Riots, Martyrs 21 Civilization and Enlightenment in Early Meiji Japan Index