Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

Informationen zum Autor John Whitney Hall & Marius B. Jansen Klappentext This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization.Originally published in 1968.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Zusammenfassung This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers

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• Authors: John Whitney Hall, John Whitney Jansen Hall, Hall John Whitney, Marius B. Jansen, Jansen Marius B.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2016
• EAN: 9780691647647
• ISBN: 978-0-691-64764-7
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Japan, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Asian History, C 1600 To C 1700, Historical Geography, C 1700 To C 1800