The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Mode Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century (New Cambridge History of Japan, 3)

by: Laura Hein (Editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 8 Jun. 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 860 pages

ISBN-10: 1107196132

ISBN-13: 9781107196131

Book Description

This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan’s mode history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An inteational team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago’s history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Weste society to become a mode nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing inteational attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan’s shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan’s distinctive and fast-changing history.