To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History 9780195327717, 0195327713

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign o

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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History
9780195327717, 0195327713

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Published 1961 (Second printing with minor corrections, 1966).

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Lord Lytton, the author of the League of Nations report on the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-1933, wrote: 'if only it w

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This Open Access book includes chapters on the key turning points in modern Japanese history from the Meiji Restoration

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The Meiji Restoration of mid-nineteenth-century Japan was the outgrowth of upheaval as vital as the American Civil War o

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In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and Frenc

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The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the

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Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand emerged as nations. Through conq

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From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundr

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