TY - BOOK AU - Tsutsui,William M. TI - A companion to Japanese history T2 - Blackwell companions to world history SN - 1405116900 AV - DS835 .C65 2007 U1 - 952 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Japan KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-592) and index; pt. I. Japan before 1600. Japanese beginnings / Mark J. Hudson ; The Heian period / G. Cameron Hurst III ; Medieval Japan / Andrew Edmund Goble -- pt. II. Early modern Japan. Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule / Philip C. Brown ; Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan / Edward E. Pratt ; Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan / Peter Nosco ; Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan / Lawrence E. Marceau -- pt. III. Modern Japan : from the Meiji restoration through World War II. Restoration and revolution / James L. Huffman ; Oligarchy, democracy, and fascism / Stephen S. Large ; Social and economic change in prewar Japan / Mark Jones, Steven Ericson ; Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity / Elise K. Tipton ; External relations / Frederick R. Dickinson ; The Japanese empire / Y. Tak Matsusaka ; The fifteen-year war / W. Miles Fletcher III -- pt. IV. Japan since 1945. The occupation / Mark Metzler ; Postwar politics / Ray Christensen ; The postwar Japanese economy / Bai Gao ; Postwar society and culture / Wesley Sasaki-Uemura ; Japan in the world / Glenn D. Hook -- pt. V. Themes in Japanese history. Women and sexuality in premodern Japan / Hitomi Tonomura ; Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Sally A. Hastings ; Class and social stratification / Ian Neary ; Japan in Asia / Leo Ching ; Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies / Michael Lewis ; Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan / Gavan McCormack ; Popular culture / E. Taylor Atkins ; Rural Japan and agriculture / Eric C. Rath ; Business and labor / Charles Weathers ; Authority and the individual / J. Victor Koschmann ; National identity and nationalism / Kevin M. Doak N2 - "A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan s history"--Publisher description UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006006918-b.html ER -