The Meiji Restoration
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-74547-5 (ISBN)
In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer fresh economic, social, political, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent creation of the modern Japanese nation-state. Seamlessly mixing meta- and micro-history, the authors examine how the Japanese state and Japanese people engaged with global trends of the early nineteenth century. They also explore the internal military conflicts that marked the 1860s and the process of reconciliation after 1868. They conclude with discussions of how new political, cultural, and diplomatic institutions were created as Japan emerged as a global nation, defined in multiple ways by its place in the world.
Robert Hellyer is Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University and has published widely on topics related to Japanese foreign relations and trade as well as Pacific history. His publications include Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 (2010). Harald Fuess is Professor of History at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, and Project Professor at Kyoto University. He also served as elected President of the European Association of Japanese Studies. His publications include Japanese Imperialism and Its Postwar Legacy (1998) and Divorce in Japan: Gender, Family, and the State (2004).
Introduction Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess; Part I. Global Connections: 1. Japan and the world conjuncture of 1866 Mark Metzler; 2. Western whalers in 1860s Hakodate: how the Nantucket of the North Pacific connected Restoration-era Japan to global flows Noell H. Wilson; 3. Small town, big dreams: a Yokohama merchant and the transformation of Japan Simon Partner; 4. The global weapons trade and the Meiji Restoration: dispersion of means of violence in a world of emerging nation-states Harald Fuess; Part II. Internal Conflicts: 5. Mountain demons from Mito – the arrival of civil war in Echizen in 1864 Maren Ehlers; 6. 'Farmer-soldiers' and local leadership in late Edo period Japan Brian Platt; 7. A military history of the Boshin War Hōya Tōru; 8. Imai Nobuo: a Tokugawa stalwart's path from the Boshin War to personal reinvention in the Meiji nation-state Robert Hellyer; Part III. Domestic Resolutions: 9. Settling the frontier and defending the North: the 'farmer-soldiers' in Hokkaido's colonial development and national reconciliation Steven Ivings; 10. Locally ancient and globally modern: Restoration discourse and the tensions of modernity Mark Ravina; 11. Ornamental diplomacy: Emperor Meiji and the monarchs of the modern world John Breen; 12. The restoration of the ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto and international cultural legitimacy in Meiji Japan Takagi Hiroshi.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 4 Tables, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-74547-4 / 1108745474 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-74547-5 / 9781108745475 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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