The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (New Cambridge History of Japan, 3)

The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (New Cambridge History of Japan, 3)
by: Laura Hein (Editor)
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 8 Jun. 2023
Language:English
Print Length:860 pages
ISBN-10:1107196132
ISBN-13:9781107196131
Book Description
This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago’s history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan’s shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan’s distinctive and fast-changing history.
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