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9780631214472

A History of Japan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631214472

  • ISBN10:

    063121447X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-27
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 bc to the 1990s.

Author Biography

Conrad Totman is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He has also taught Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Northwestern University. He is the author of ten previous books, including Japan before Perry: A Short History (1981), Early Modern Japan (1993), and Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
x
Conventions Used xiii
Series Editor's Preface xv
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xx
Maps
xxiii
Introduction 1(8)
PART I BEGINNINGS 9(24)
Introduction to Part I
10(1)
Chronology of Part I
10(1)
Geology, Climate, and Biota
11(9)
Japan's Geography Today
12(1)
The Geological Heritage
13(3)
The Influence of Climate and Ocean Currents
16(3)
The Biotic Inheritance
19(1)
From Origins to Agriculture
20(13)
Early Foragers
20(3)
Later Foragers
23(5)
The Emergence of Agriculture
28(5)
PART II THE AGE OF DISPERSED AGRICULTURALISTS (400 BCE--1250 CE) 33(106)
Introduction to Part II
34(2)
Chronology of Part II
36(2)
Political Consolidation to 671 CE
38(22)
Continental Influences
38(3)
Material Foundations
41(6)
The Struggle for Hegemony
47(13)
Establishing the Ritsuryo Order (672--750)
60(27)
A Political Narrative
61(3)
The Sources
64(3)
Establishing a Capital City
67(4)
Forming a State Church
71(5)
The Ritsuryo State at 750
76(5)
The Broader Context
81(6)
Ritsuryo Adaptation and Decay (750--1250)
87(26)
A Political Narrative
88(8)
The Elements of Stability
96(10)
Forces for Change
106(7)
Classical Higher Culture (750--1250)
113(26)
The Beginnings
114(2)
Flowering: The Sekkanke Heyday
116(11)
Broadening: The Later Years
127(12)
PART III THE AGE OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE (1250--1890) 139(168)
Introduction to Part III
140(2)
Chronology of Part III
142(2)
The Centuries Of Disorder (1250--1550)
144(28)
Trends in Production and Distribution
145(13)
A Political Narrative
158(14)
Medieval Higher Culture (1250--1550)
172(27)
Kenmon Culture
173(14)
Religious Developments
187(7)
Vocal Literature
194(5)
Establishing the Bakuhan Order (1550--l700)
199(32)
A Political Narrative
199(22)
The Bakuhan System at 1700
221(10)
The Age of Growth (1590--l700)
231(15)
Dimensions of Expansion
231(5)
Kyoto Revived
236(5)
Enriching a Common Higher Culture
241(5)
Stasis and Decay (1700--1850)
246(32)
Primary Production: Trends and Ramifications
247(12)
Cultural and Political Trends
259(19)
Crisis and Redirection (1800--1890)
278(29)
Foreign Complications
279(10)
Redirection: Toward Industrialism
289(18)
PART IV THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISM: EARLY DECADES (1890--PRESENT) 307(222)
Introduction to Part IV
308(4)
Chronology of Part IV
312(2)
Early Imperial Triumph (1890--1914)
314(17)
Domestic Political Process
315(4)
Becoming an Imperial Power
319(7)
Domestic Growth
326(5)
Early Imperial Society and Culture (1890--1914)
331(29)
Social Issues
331(16)
Articulate Culture
347(13)
Later Imperial Politics and Economy (1914--1945)
360(22)
The Politics of Disorder
362(11)
Domestic Growth
373(9)
Later Imperial Society and Culture (1914--1945)
382(35)
Social Issues
382(19)
Articulate Culture
401(16)
Drift to Disaster (1914--1945)
417(22)
The Diplomacy of Disorder
417(11)
Into the Global Maelstrom
428(11)
Entrepreneurial Japan: Politics and Economy (1945--1990)
439(31)
The Diplomatic Context
440(2)
Survival and Redirection (194S--1960)
442(12)
Showa Genroku (1960--1990)
454(16)
Society and Environment (1945--1990)
470(33)
Social Issues
470(24)
Environmental Issues
494(9)
The Culture of Entrepreneurial Japan (1945--1990)
503(26)
Media and Messages
504(6)
Modes of Cultural Expression
510(19)
Epilogue: Japan Today and Tomorrow 529(15)
Immediate Issues
529(6)
The Larger Picture
535(9)
Notes 544(19)
Appendices 563(35)
A Supplemental Tables
563(4)
B Chinese Words: Wade-Giles and Pinyin Orthographies
567(2)
C Glossary of Japanese Terms
569(11)
D Supplemental Readings
580(18)
Index 598

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