Modern Japan A History in Documents |
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| Author:
| Huffman, James L. |
| Series title: | Pages from History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-539253-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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This work describes Japan's development since the early 1600s through the words and pictures of those who lived it. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources-student essays, editorial cartoons, novelists' complaints, diary entries, government documents, and travel accounts, to name a few, Modern Japan: A History in Documents narrates Japan's movement from the self-contained days of the seventeenth-century to the country's intense engagement with the world in the last two centuries....
More DescriptionThis work describes Japan's development since the early 1600s through the words and pictures of those who lived it. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources-student essays, editorial cartoons, novelists' complaints, diary entries, government documents, and travel accounts, to name a few, Modern Japan: A History in Documents narrates Japan's movement from the self-contained days of the seventeenth-century to the country's intense engagement with the world in the last two centuries. The documents are woven together by a narrative that explains their place in the national story.