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Zusatztext Huffman's animated writing style, coupled with intellectual research, allows for the material to be presented through a vivid world history lens...a resourceful and informative book...would benefit high school educators in preparing lessons on a similar subject or simply provide a concise synthesis to an enthusiast seeking a recapitulation of Japan's past. Informationen zum Autor James L. Huffman is H. Orth Hirt Professor of History Emeritus at Wittenberg University. Klappentext Japan in World History addresses the entire scope of Japanese history, beginning with Japan's prehistoric culture and ending with a look at Japan in the world today. The majority of large-scale history books on Japan, by contrast, focus on the modern era, and those that cover the entire scope of its history are not written for general readers and do not focus on Japan's international engagement. This work stands apart for its narration of traditional historical developments through the perspective of interactions and comparisons with the broader world. Zusammenfassung Here is a page-turning, compact history of Japan from earliest times to the present, with a focus on its often tempestuous, often creative relationships with other countries. The book ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid donor. Writing in a lively fashion, Huffman makes rich use of primary documents, illustrating events with comments by the people who lived through them: tellers of ancient myths, court women who dominated the early literary world, cynical priests who damned medieval materialism, travelers who marveled at "indecent" Western ballroom dancers in the mid-1800s, and the emperor who justified Pearl Harbor. Without ignoring standard political and military events, the book illuminates economic, social, and cultural factors; it also examines issues of gender as well as the roles of commoners, samurai, business leaders, novelists, and priests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Japan's Emergence (to c. 600 c.e.) 2: The Aristocratic Era (600-1160) 3: Years of War (1160-1550) 4: Peace and Relative Isolation (1550-1868) 5: Entering the Modern World (1868-1912) 6: At War with the World (1912-1945) 7: Japan in the Postwar World (1945- ) Chonology Notes Further Reading Web Sites Index ...
