Chōshū Activists in the Meiji Restoration
Author | : Thomas M. Huber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Thomas M. Huber |
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Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Albert Morton Craig |
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Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Albert M. Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674128507 |
Author | : Albert M. Craig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Chōshū-han (Japan) |
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Author | : Albert M. Craig |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739101933 |
When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies, upstart merchants, bath houses, and Kabuki. Fifteen years later, Japan was on its way to becoming the only non-Western nation in the nineteenth century with a modern centralized bureaucratic state and industrial economy. This book is a study of the Meiji Restoration that changed the face of Japan. Prominent historian Albert M. Craig tells its story through that of the domain of Choshu-whose role in the formation of modern Japan was not unlike that of Prussia in Germany-during the fifteen crucial years between 1853 and 1868. Whereas previous studies have stressed the role of discontented lower samurai and frustrated rich merchants and peasants in this transition, claiming that they provided the motive power behind the political movements of the Restoration period, this work sharply challenges these earlier interpretations. Craig instead emphasizes the vitality of traditional values in Japan's early reaction to the West and foregrounds the critical contribution of the old society to the formation of the new Meiji state. Choshu in the Meiji Restoration is a seminal work for scholars and students of Japanese history.
Author | : H. D. Harootunian |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520074033 |
H. D. Harootunian has provided a new preface for the paperback edition of his classic study Toward Restoration, the first intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration in English. Book jacket.
Author | : Albert M. Craig |
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Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Charles L Yates |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113616037X |
First published in 1995. This volume looks at the samurai character of Saigo Takamori, a central character in the novel and television series called 'Tobu ga gotoku' (as if to fly) based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, which was aired on Japan's public television network NHK. Shiba's main focus in the novel if on the early development of Japan's domestic politics, and on the emergence in that context of widespread discontent toward the policies of the Meiji government among the samurai class, leading eventually to a series of armed rebellions between 1874 and 1877.
Author | : Thomas M. Huber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780804717557 |
Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the West nor traditional loyalty to Emperor and nation, but rather lay in class conflict and long-term institutional change. The author sees the Restoration as a revolution against feudal privilege carried out from below by a service intelligentsia of minor administrators, priests, scholars, and village officials. The book focuses on the politically most effective body of activists, those in the domain of Choshu, and on their most important leaders of the 1850s and 1860s: Yoshida Shoin, Kusaka Genzui, and Takasugi Shinsaku. It examines their social and educational background, explores their motives for acting, and follows them through their intellectual and political struggles. The final chapter explains various heretofore puzzling aspects of the Meiji period (1868-1912) in terms of its revolutionary origins, and concludes by showing that the Restoration, far from being uniquely Japanese, had many of the characteristics we associate with the great revolutions of England, France, and Russia.
Author | : Marius B. Jansen |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9780231101738 |
Jansen tells the story of the Restoration in the career and thought of Sakamoto Ryoma and, to a lesser extent, Nakaoka Shintaro, each an example of the new type of political leader: idealistic, individualistic, and patriotic.