A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present Fourth Edition paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate the feudal 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 nations first experiments with mass democracy after World War I. Author Andrew Gordon offers the finest synthesis to date of Japans passage through militarism World War II the American occupation and the subsequent economic rollercoaster.