Japan in Transition —— From Tokugawa to Meiji

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ISBN: 9780691604848 出版年：2014 页码：498 Princeton University Press

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s has usually been treated in terms of politics and foreign relations. Yet those decades were also of pivotal importance in japan's institutional modernization. As the japanese entered the world order, they experienced a massive introduction of western-style organizations. Sweeping reforms, without the class violence or the utopian appeal of revolution, created the foundation for a modern society.