The Cambridge History of Japan by Marius B. Jansen - 9780521223560

The Cambridge History of Japan\n\nThis volume covers the end of feudal society and the shogunate in Japan, and the growing power of the emperor.\n\nMarius B. Jansen (Edited by)\n\n9780521223560, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 28 July 1989\n\n844 pages\n23.7 x 16.1 x 4.8 cm, 1.292 kg\n\n\""...provide both the non-specialist and specialist with a coherent survey of major events of the nineteenth century....Volume 5 of the Cambridge History may be read both as a summation of existing English-language historiography on nineteenth-century Japan and as implicitly setting an agenda for the next stage of research.\""\nKate Wildman Nakai, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\n\nVolume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state. It traces the roots and course of political, social, and institutional change that took place in Japan from late T]