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This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan's ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.
List of contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names and Dates
Map of Japan
Map of Mito Domain
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Origins of Mito Domain and Tokugawa Mitsukuni's "Golden Age"
Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Mito: Crisis, Reform, and the Birth of the Late Mito School
Chapter 3: "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian": Mito in the Age of Imperialism
Chapter 4: The Politics of Mito's Tenp¿ Reforms
Chapter 5: Nariaki, Yoshinobu, and the Birth of Modern Japan
Chapter 6: The Violent Restoration: Civil War and the End of Mito Domain
Conclusion: Mito and Modern Japan
Bibliography
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By Michael Alan Thornton
Summary
This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japans ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.
