Modern Japan: A History in Documents - Couverture rigide

Huffman, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195147421 ISBN 13 : 9780195147421

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Many textbooks interpret History, but this text truly is History, offering a huge range of primary sources that will engage and develop students' analytical skills. Compiled by a leading historian, it will enable your pupils to draw informed and balanced historical conclusions, and is an ideal support for Group 3 of the IB Diploma Programme.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Employing a wide range of primary source materials, Modern Japan: A History in Documents provides a colorful narrative of Japan's development since 1600. A variety of diary entries, letters, legal documents, and poems brings to life the early modern years, when Japan largely shut itself off from the outside world. A picture essay highlights the tumultuous decade and a half following the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and the U.S. Navy in 1853, which led to unprecedented changes and a new government. The dramatic rush to modernity in the late 1800s and early 1900s, accompanied by Japan's entry into the imperialist rivalry, is seen through travel accounts, novelists' recollections, and imperial rescripts, while editorial cartoons and prison memoirs recount the major early twentieth century rush, first toward pluralism, then toward war. Japan's recovery after World War II to become one of the world's most vibrant democracies and its second largest economy is chronicled through records as diverse as a funeral eulogy, a comic book description of Adam Smith's economic theories, and an internet musing. The documents are woven together in a lively narrative that brings to life one of the modern world's most remarkable national stories. This new edition includes an updated introduction with a note on sources and interpretation, extensive revision of Chapter 1: The Land of Shogun and Daimyo, eleven new documents, seven new sidebars, seven new images, and updated further reading and websites. It revises the interpretation of the Tokugawa period; adds new material on Japanese imperialism, especially its expansion into Korea; has more emphasis on the place of minorities in modern society; quotes additional fiction and other literature; updates the most recent material to include the last 15 years of history; and adds some new editorial cartoons from the Meiji and Taisho eras, a rare 19th century photo from the Meiji era, and archival maps.

Biographie de l'auteur

H. Orth Hirt Professor of History emeritus, Wittenberg University; author, Japan in World History (OUP, 2009), A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan (University of Hawai'I Press, 1987), Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi En'ichiro (University of Hawaii Press, 1980); editor, Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism (Garland, 1997)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195147421
• ISBN 13: 9780195147421
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italie