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A brief history of Japanese civilization / Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Boston. Massachusetts : Wadsworth / Cengage Learning, c.2013Edition: 4th edDescription: xv, 310 pages : col. illustrations, col. maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • txt
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780495913252
  • 0495913251
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952 22 SCH
Contents:
Part One: Beginnings and foundations. Prehistory of the Japanese archipelago. The early state: Chinese and Korean influences -- Part Two: Aristocrats, monks, and Samurai. The Heian period. The Kamakura period in Japan. Muromachi Japan -- Part Three: Early modern/late traditional Japan. The formation of a new order. Tokugawa Shogunate -- Part Four: Japan and the modern world. Endings and beginnings: from Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873. The emergence of modern Japan: 1874-1894. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931. Militarism and war. The new Japan.
Summary: This compelling text explores the development of Japan through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history.
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Includes index.

Bibliography : p. 277-298.

Part One: Beginnings and foundations. Prehistory of the Japanese archipelago. The early state: Chinese and Korean influences --
Part Two: Aristocrats, monks, and Samurai. The Heian period. The Kamakura period in Japan. Muromachi Japan --
Part Three: Early modern/late traditional Japan. The formation of a new order. Tokugawa Shogunate --
Part Four: Japan and the modern world. Endings and beginnings: from Tokugawa to Meiji, 1787-1873. The emergence of modern Japan: 1874-1894. Imperial Japan: 1895-1931. Militarism and war. The new Japan.

This compelling text explores the development of Japan through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through their economic, political, and social history.

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