Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-592) and index.
Contents:
fifteen-year war / Notes on contributors -- Introduction / W. Miles Fletcher III -- 14. The Japan before 1600 -- 1. Japanese beginnings / Mark J. Hudson -- 2. The Heian period / G. Cameron Hurst III -- 3. Medieval Japan / Andrew Edmund Goble -- pt. 2. Early modern Japan -- 4. Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule / Philip C. Brown -- 5. Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan / Edward E. Pratt -- 6. Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan / Peter Nosco -- 7. Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan / Lawrence E. Marceau -- pt. 3. Modern Japan : from the Meiji restoration through World War II -- 8. Restoration and revolution / James L. Huffman -- 9. Oligarchy, democracy, and fascism / Stephen S. Large -- 10. Social and economic change in prewar Japan / Mark Jones and Steven Ericson -- 11. Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity / Elise K. Tipton -- 12. External relations / Frederick R. Dickinson -- 13. The Japanese empire / Y. Tak Matsusaka -- 14. The fifteen-year war / W. Miles Fletcher III -- 30. Index. 15. The occupation / Kevin M. Doak -- 16. Postwar politics / Ray Christensen -- 17. The postwar Japanese economy / Bai Gao -- 18. Postwar society and culture / Wesley Sasaki-Uemura -- 19. Japan in the world / Glenn D. Hook -- pt. 5. Themes in Japanese history -- 20. Women and sexuality in premodern Japan / Hitomi Tonomura -- 21. Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Sally A. Hastings -- 22. Class and social stratification / Ian Neary -- 23. Japan in Asia / Leo Ching -- 24. Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies / Michael Lewis -- 25. Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan / Gavan McCormack -- 26. Popular culture / E. Taylor Atkins -- 27. Rural Japan and agriculture / Eric C. Rath -- 28. Business and labor / Charles Weathers -- 29. Authority and the individual / J. Victor Koschmann -- 30. National identity and nationalism / Kevin M. Doak -- Consolidated bibliography -- Index.
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