Introduction: Enduring Imprints on the Longer Past Part 1: Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime 1. The Tokugawa PolityUnificationThe Tokugawa Political SettlementsThe Daimy?The Imperial InstitutionThe SamuraiVillagers and City-DwellersThe Margins of the Japanese and Japan 2. Social and Economic TransformationsThe Seventeenth-Century BoomRiddles of Stagnation and Vitality 3. The Intellectual World of Late TokugawaIdeological Foundations of the Tokugawa RegimeCultural Diversity and ContradictionsReform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas 4. The Overthrow of the TokugawaThe Western Powers and the Unequal TreatiesThe Crumbling of Tokugawa RulePolitics of Terror and AccomodationBakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest Part 2: Modern Revolution, 1868-1905 5. The Samurai RevolutionPrograms of Nationalist RevolutionPolitical Unification and Central BureaucracyEliminating the Status SystemThe Conscript ArmyCompulsory EducationThe Monarch at the CenterBuilding a Rich CountryStances toward the World 6. Participation and ProtestPolitical Discourse and ContentionMovement for Freedom and People's RightsSamurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New ReligionsParticipation for WomenTreaty Revision and Domestic PoliticsThe Meiji Constitution 7. Social, Economic, and Cultural TransformationsLandlords and TenantsIndustrial RevolutionThe Work Force and Labor ConditionsSpread of Mass and Higher EducationCulture and ReligionAffirming Japanese Identity and Destiny 8. Empire and Domestic Order The Trajectory to EmpireContexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-BuildingThe Turbulent World of Diet PoliticsThe Era of Popular ProtestEngineering Nationalism Part 3: Imperial Japan From Ascendance to Ashes 9. Economy and SocietyWartime Boom and Postwar BustLandlords, Tenants, and Rural LifeCity Life: Middle and Working ClassesCultural Responses to Social Change 10. Democracy and Empire between the World WarsThe Emergence of Party CabinetsThe Structure of Parliamentary GovernmentIdeological ChallengesStrategies of Imperial Democratic RuleJapan, Asia, and the Western Powers 11. The Depression Crisis and ResponsesEconomic and Social CrisisBreaking the Impasse: New Departures AbroadToward a New Social Economic OrderToward a New Political Order 12. Japan in WartimeWider War in ChinaToward Pearl HarborThe Pacific WarMobilizing for Total WarLiving in the Shadow of WarEnding the WarBurdens and Legacies of War 13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable StructuresBearing the UnbearableThe American Agenda: Demilitarize and DemocratizeJapanese ResponsesThe Reverse CourseToward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? Part 4: Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000 14. Economic and Social TransformationsThe Postwar "Economic Miracle"Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and WorkShared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar EraDifferences Enduring and RealignedManaging Social Stability and ChangeImages and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change 15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth EraPolitical StrugglesThe Politics of AccommodationGlobal Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth 16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980sNew Roles in the World and New TensionsEconomy: Thriving Through the Oil CrisesPolitics: The Conservative HeydaySociety and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties 17. Japan's "Lost Decades": 1989-2008The End of ShowaThe Specter of a Divided SocietyEconomy of the "Lost Decade"The Fall and Rise of the Liberal Democratic PartyAssessing Reforms, Explaining RecoveryBetween Asia and the WestOngoing Presence of the Past 18. Shock, Disaster and Aftermath: Japan since 2008The Lehman ShockPolitics of Hope and DisillusionmentMaking Sense of the Perception of DeclineThe Disasters of 3.11 and Aftermath
Andrew Gordon is the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.
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down. This is the best survey on Modern Japanese history
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"A Modern History of Japan is the best textbook available for
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opportunities and resistance from workers and other non-elites
during Japan's industrial revolution and beyond."--George
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understood to comprehend the history of the modern world."--Noell
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University of Massachusetts, Boston
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