A history of Japan, 1582-1941 : internal and external worlds

 Content: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Preface; Conventions; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Japan\'s internal and external worlds, 1582-1941; 2 Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 1582-1689; 3 The Japanese economy, 1688-1789; 4 An age of stability: Japan\'s internal world, 1709-1783, in perspective; 5 Prosperity amid crises, 1789-1853; 6 Sakoku under pressure: the gaiatsu of the 1850s and 1860s; 7 Fashioning a state and a foreign policy: Japan 1868-1919; 8 From peace (Versailles 1919) to war (Pearl Harbor 1941); Tokugawa shoguns; Main regnal periods; Glossary.
 Abstract:             This book offers a distinctive and penetrating overview of the internal and external forces responsible for the making of modern Japan. Louis Cullen takes an unusually broad approach that combines economic, social, and political approaches and which breaks with traditional Western historiography to provide an entirely new history of Japan