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Informationen zum Autor William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988). Klappentext A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars, it balances treatment of traditional themes with coverage of current trends and emerging perspectives. The volume presents a chronological survey of Japanese history from the country's earliest history up to the present day, giving readers insights into the key developments in each period of Japan's past. It also examines themes and alternative histories, with a particular emphasis on approaches and issues that will shape the future development of scholarship in Japanese history. Zusammenfassung A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars. Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 William M. Tsutsui PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11 1 Japanese Beginnings 13 Mark J. Hudson 2 The Heian Period 30 G. Cameron Hurst III 3 Medieval Japan 47 Andrew Edmund Goble PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67 4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69 Philip C. Brown 5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86 Edward E. Pratt 6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101 Peter Nosco 7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117 Lawrence E. Marceau PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137 8 Restoration and Revolution 139 James L. Huffman 9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156 Stephen S. Large 10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan 172 Mark Jones and Steven Ericson 11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity 189 Elise K. Tipton 12 External Relations 207 Frederick R. Dickinson 13 The Japanese Empire 224 Y. Tak Matsusaka 14 The Fifteen-Year War 241 W. Miles Fletcher III PART IV JAPAN SINCE 1945 263 15 The Occupation 265 Mark Metzler 16 Postwar Politics 281 Ray Christensen 17 The Postwar Japanese Economy 299 Bai Gao 18 Postwar Society and Culture 315 Wesley Sasaki-Uemura 19 Japan in the World 333 Glenn D. Hook PART V THEMES IN JAPANESE HISTORY 349 20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan 351 Hitomi Tonomura 21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan 372 Sally A. Hastings 22 Class and Social Stratification 389 Ian Neary 23 Japan in Asia 407 Leo Ching 24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies 424 Michael Lewis 25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan 443 Gavan McCormack 26 Popular Culture 460 E. Taylor Atkins 27 Rural Japan and Agriculture 477 Eric C. Rath 28 Business and Labor 493 Charles Weathers 29 Authority and the Individual 511 J. Victor Koschmann 30 National Identity and Nationalism 528 Kevin M. Doak <...
