To Stand With the Nations of the World - Japan''s Meiji Restoration in World History

Zusatztext Ravina's book is a fresh look at the much-studied background to the Meiji restoration. Informationen zum Autor Mark Ravina is Professor of History at Emory University and author of Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan (Stanford) and The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori (Wiley). Klappentext In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japanese state with the help of Western advisors. This book explains the paradox of the Meiji Restoration: revering the ancient past while embracing the foreign and new. Zusammenfassung In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japanese state with the help of Western advisors. This book explains the paradox of the Meiji Restoration: revering the ancient past while embracing the foreign and new. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note to Reader Introduction Chapter 1: An Almost Perpetual Peace Chapter 2: The Crisis of Imperialism Chapter 3: Reform and Revolution Chapter 4: A Newly Ancient Japan Chapter 5: The Impatient Nation Chapter 6: The Prudent Empire Conclusion Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Ravina, Mark Ravina, Mark (Professor of History Ravina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780195327717
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532771-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan