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Author:

Ravina, Mark, 1961-

Title:

The last samurai : the life and battles of Saigo Takamori / Mark Ravina.

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xvi, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Saigō, Takamori,--1828-1877.
Statesmen--Japan.--Biography.
Japan--History--Restoration, 1853-1870.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-254) and index.

Contents:

"Powerfully sentimental", Saigo's early years in Satsuma -- "A man of exceptional fidelity", Saigo and national politics -- "Bones in the earth", exile and ignominy -- "To shoulder the burdens of the realm", the destruction of the Shogunate -- "To tear asunder the clouds", Saigo and the Meiji State -- "The burden of death is light", the war of the southwest.

ISBN:

9780471089704 (cloth)
0471089702 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51898842

LCCN:

2003006646

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OYAX081 -- Boone Campus Library (Boone)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)