Modern Japan: A Historical Survey - Softcover

Hane, Mikiso; Perez, Louis G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813344093 ISBN 13: 9780813344096

Publisher: Westview Press, 2008

Synopsis

Integrating political events with cultural, economic, and intellectual movements, Modern Japan provides a balanced and authoritative survey of modern Japanese history. A summary of Japan's early history, emphasizing institutions and systems that influenced Japanese society, provides a well-rounded introduction to this essential volume, which focuses on the Tokugawa period to the present. The fourth edition now includes the latest scholarship on feudal women, samurai tactics, Chonin education, political reforms in the late Tokugawa period, foreigners in Nagasaki during the Meiji Restoration, and early feminism in the later Meiji period. Bringing Japanese history up to date, the final chapter details current issues, including the impact of the Gulf Wars on Japanese international relations and the recent controversies over Japanese war crimes, the so-called Comfort Women, and the Yasukuni war memorial.

About this title

About the Author

The late Mikiso Hane was Szold Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Louis G. Perez is Distinguished University Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Illinois State University.

Review

“Since its first edition, Hane’s text has served as an excellent guide to modern Japanese history, thanks largely to the clarity of his writing, unbiased voice, and efforts to humanize the story, most notably by including the experiences of peasants, women, and other minorities too often overlooked. Perez, to his credit, has made the text even more accessible to students and general readers. Not only has he seamlessly woven in updated material and editorially improved the flow of the narrative, but his expansion of the bibliography and chronological chart and inclusion of a new section on internet sources have significantly enhanced the text’s usefulness as a resource.”
—Elizabeth Dorn Lublin, Wayne State University
“Mikiso Hane, with Louis Perez’s updates, provides us once again with a text that treats the political, economic, intellectual, cultural, and, social history of Japan up to current times. Women and minorities are fully included in this readable yet detailed history of modern Japan.”
—Ann M. Harrington, Loyola University Chicago

Edition details

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813344093
• ISBN 13: 9780813344096
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 584