TY - BOOK ID - 31179754 TI - A modern history of Japan : from Tokugawa times to the present PY - 2014 SN - 9780199930159 0199930155 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - J3360 KW - J3370 KW - J3380 KW - J3390 KW - J4000.60 KW - J4000.70 KW - J4000.80 KW - J4000.90 KW - Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Japan: History -- Kindai, modern period (1868 [1850s]- ) KW - Japan: History -- Gendai, modern, 20th century KW - Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century KW - Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Japan KW - History KW - Japan - History - 1868 KW - -Japan - History - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31179754 AB - A Modern History of Japan paints a portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate -- the overlordship of the Tokugawa family -- through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Andrew Gordon offers a synthesis of Japan's passage through militarism, World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster. ER -