The modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present / Andrew Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Andrew, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--1868-.

Japan.

History.

Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.

Physical Description:

xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

This innovative new history of Japan highlights the connections between Japanese history and world history in general. 48 halftones. Maps.

Contents:

Introduction: Enduring Imprints of the Longer Past 1

Part 1. Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime

1. The Tokugawa Polity 9

Unification 9

The Tokugawa Political Settlements 11

The Daimyo 13

The Imperial Institution 14

The Samurai 14

Villagers and City-Dwellers 15

The Margins of the Japanese and Japan 16

2. Social and Economic Transformations 20

The Seventeenth-Century Boom 20

Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality 27

3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa 34

Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime 34

Cultural Diversity and Contradictions 37

Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas 42

4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa 46

The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties 46

The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule 50

Politics of Terror and Accommodation 54

Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest 56

Part 2. Modern Revolution, 1868-1905

5. The Samurai Revolution 61

Programs of Nationalist Revolution 62

Political Unification and Central Bureaucracy 63

Eliminating the Status System 64

The Conscript Army 66

Compulsory Education 67

The Monarch at the Center 68

Building a Rich Country 70

Stances toward the World 73

6. Participation and Protest 77

Political Discourse and Contention 78

Movement for Freedom and People's Rights 80

Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions 85

Participation for Women 88

Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics 91

The Meiji Constitution 92

7. Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations 94

Landlords and Tenants 94

Industrial Revolution 96

The Work Force and Labor Conditions 100

Spread of Mass and Higher Education 105

Culture and Religion 108

Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny 111

8. Empire and Domestic Order 115

The Trajectory to Empire 115

Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building 123

The Turbulent World of Diet Politics 126

The Era of Popular Protest 131

Engineering Nationalism 136

Part 3. Imperial Japan From Ascendance to Ashes

9. Economy and Society 139

Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust 139

Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life 144

City Life: Middle and Working Classes 148

Cultural Responses to Social Change 154

10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars 161

The Emergence of Party Cabinets 162

The Structure of Parliamentary Government 165

Ideological Challenges 167

Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule 169

Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers 173

11. The Depression Crisis and Responses 182

Economic and Social Crisis 182

Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad 186

Toward a New Social and Economic Order 192

Toward a New Political Order 196

12. Japan in Wartime 204

Wider War in China 204

Toward Pearl Harbor 207

The Pacific War 209

Mobilizing for Total War 212

Living in the Shadow of War 217

Ending the War 221

Burdens and Legacies of War 224

13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures 226

Bearing the Unbearable 226

The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize 229

Japanese Responses 234

The Reverse Course 238

Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? 240

Part 4. Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000

14. Economic and Social Transformations 245

The Postwar "Economic Miracle" 245

Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work 251

Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era 254

Differences Enduring and Realigned 259

Managing Social Stability and Change 262

Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change 264

15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era 270

Political Struggles 270

The Politics of Accommodation 279

Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth 287

16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s 291

New Roles in the World and New Tensions 291

Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises 298

Politics: The Conservative Heyday 301

Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties 304

17. Beyond the Postwar Era 310

The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy 310

The End of LDP Hegemony 312

The Economic Bubble Bursts 314

The Japanese Disease at Century's End? 320

Issues for the Future 328

Appendix A. Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2001 333

Appendix B. Vote Totals and Seats by Party, 1945-2000 Lower House Elections 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-370) and index.

ISBN:

0195110609

0195110617

OCLC:

49704795