Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Japan in the early nineteenth century
- 2 The Tempō crisis
- 3 Late Tokugawa culture and thought
- 4 The foreign threat and the opening of the ports
- 5 The Meiji Restoration
- 6 Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868–1885
- 7 Japan's turn to the west
- 8 Social change
- 9 Economic change in the nineteenth century
- 10 Meiji political institutions
- 11 Meiji conservatism
- 12 Japan's drive to great-power status
- Works Cited
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Japan in the early nineteenth century
- 2 The Tempō crisis
- 3 Late Tokugawa culture and thought
- 4 The foreign threat and the opening of the ports
- 5 The Meiji Restoration
- 6 Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868–1885
- 7 Japan's turn to the west
- 8 Social change
- 9 Economic change in the nineteenth century
- 10 Meiji political institutions
- 11 Meiji conservatism
- 12 Japan's drive to great-power status
- Works Cited
- Index
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- The Cambridge History of Japan , pp. i - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989