Table of Contents

1. Introduction John Whitney Hall; 2. The sixteenth-century unification Asao Naohiro; 3. The social and economic consequences of unification Wakita Osamu; 4. The bakuhan system John Whitney Hall; 5. The han Harold Bolitho; 6. The inseparable trinity: Japan's relations with China and Korea George Elison; 7. Christianity and the daimyo George Elison; 8. Thought and religion: 1550–1700 Bito Masahide; 9. Politics in the eighteenth century Tsuji Tatsuya; 10. The village and agriculture during the Edo period Furushima Toshio; 11. Commercial change and urban growth in early modern Japan Nakai Nobuhiko and James L. McClain; 12. History and nature in eighteenth-century Tokugawa thought Tetsuo Najita; 13. Tokugawa society: material culture, standard of living, and life-styles Susan B. Hanley; 14. Popular culture Donald B. Shiveley; Glossary; Index.

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Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of Japan examines the turbulent period from 1550 to 1800.

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Reviews

"...a project that bears the marks of careful planning and organization by experienced editors who are themselves distinguished historians of Japan...Clearly written and free of jargon, all essays contain topical subheadings that are helpfully placed at the top of the pages as well as within the texts." E. Patricia Tsurumi, Canadian Journal of History "...a tour de force that at once represents the culmination of several generations of scholarship and heralds the advent of a new level of sophistication in the study of Japan's early modern history." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies