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Title: Japan: A Modern History by James L. McClain ISBN: 0-393-04156-5 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best history of modern Japan (1603 forward)...
Comment: McClain has fashioned a highly detailed, sophisticated, and complex history of Japan from 1603 to the present. The historiography is superb (he obviously is totally bilingual and is fluent in Japanese sources). The history is both descriptive (chronological, social, political, economic, family/personal) as well as analytic (how social structure affected the rise of industrial society, for example). The overall effect is to make Japanese history clear and comprehensible. The people of Japan stand out in distinct relief.
I was puzzled that the Boston Globe reviewer was much cooler toward this book than I think most readers are or will be. McClain's history will stand the test of time.
Rating: 5
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Comment: I am not writing a review in fact. But I can't find anywhere else here to ask my question: What is the difference between the college edition and hardcover ed.? There is no info on this.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive history since the 17th century.
Comment: If you are looking for an excellent resource on the history of Japan in the past 4 centuries, I recommend this book highly. It does an excellent job in tracing the tortuous path that wove from Japan's feudal fiefdom society to the current modern parliamentary democracy. In addition to the governmental and military matters that are generally covered, there is notable space dedicated to the arts and the contributions of women, peasants and others not normally found in history books. The maps and illustrations are adequate, and do help to support the text. Highly Recommended.
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Title: The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen ISBN: 0674009916 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon ISBN: 0195110609 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Human Tradition in Modern Japan by Anne Walthall ISBN: 0842029125 Publisher: SR Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower ISBN: 0393320278 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Japanese Culture by H. Paul Varley, Paul Varley ISBN: 0824821521 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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