Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: University of Chicago. Far Eastern Library
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marius B. Jansen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 933
ISBN-13: 0674039106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years’ engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. Since 1600 Japan has undergone three periods of wrenching social and institutional change, following the imposition of hegemonic order on feudal society by the Tokugawa shogun; the opening of Japan’s ports by Commodore Perry; and defeat in World War II. The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes: the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in 1600, the emergence of village and castle towns with consumer populations, and the diffusion of samurai values in the culture. Marius Jansen covers the making of the modern state, the adaptation of Western models, growing international trade, the broadening opportunity in Japanese society with industrialization, and the postwar occupation reforms imposed by General MacArthur. Throughout, the book gives voice to the individuals and views that have shaped the actions and beliefs of the Japanese, with writers, artists, and thinkers, as well as political leaders given their due. The story this book tells, though marked by profound changes, is also one of remarkable consistency, in which continuities outweigh upheavals in the development of society, and successive waves of outside influence have only served to strengthen a sense of what is unique and native to Japanese experience. The Making of Modern Japan takes us to the core of this experience as it illuminates one of the contemporary world’s most compelling transformations.
Author: University of Chicago. Library
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Parks M. Coble
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 168417273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In "Facing Japan", Parks M. Coble focuses on how events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria - from 1931 until war erupted in 1937 - affected the Chinese goverment and public opinion. Both in the places where incidents occurred and in other centres of power, Japanese threats, attacks, and economic demands pressed Nationalist China relentlessly and aroused popular indignation. Throughout most of the period, Chiang kai-Shek was trying to wrest control of China from all domestic rivals. Aware that his army was inferior to Japan's, his Nationalist government repeatedly made concessions in response to Japanese provocations. Chiang busied himself with anti-Communist campaigns, leaving others to take public responsibility for his unpopular appeasement policies. For such crises as the Mukden Incident and the Japanese attack on Shanghai, Coble examines the tension that Chiang's policy caused within the Kuomintang, and the alternatives put forward by other major leaders both inside and outside the government. To further explore the political complexities of the day, Coble traces the actions of regional leaders and their constantly changing relations to the central government in Nanking, reviews editorials of various newspapers, and chronicles the actions of student organizations and patriotic associations.
Author: Michael C. Desch
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2001-03-20
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780801866395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Power and Military Effectiveness is an instructive reassessment of the increasingly popular belief that military success is one of democracy's many virtues. International relations scholars, policy makers, and military minds will be well served by its lessons."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: J.W. Dower
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 1684172152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a detailed biography of Japan's Postwar prime minister. John Dower is one of the preminent historians of modern Japan.
Author: William G. Beasley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0198221681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studying the development, expansion, and eventual collapse of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through 1945, Beasley here discusses the dynamic relationship between a successful industrial economy and the building of an empire.