Modern Library, Date: 2004-11-08. paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Nice cover. Previous owner name occurs in prelims. Clean pages throughout. Binding is secure. 2004. Modern Library ISBN 0812972864 9780812972863 [US]

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Random House Publishing Group, Date: 2004. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. Random House Publishing Group ISBN 0812972864 9780812972863 [US]

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Modern Library, Date: 2004. AP5 - Book was signed by the author on the title page. In this elegant and wise book, Ian Buruma demystifies the most fateful period of Japan's history-fromt he arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's black ships, in 1853, to Japan's reemergence in the post-World War II order.. Signed by Author. 3rd Printing. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2004. Modern Library ISBN 0812972864 9780812972863 [US]

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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group Nov 2004] Softcover Neuware - In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo.What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many ...
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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Modern Library] Softcover reprint edition. 194 pages. 7.00x5.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group Nov 2004] Softcover Neuware - In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo.What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many ...
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Modern Library 2004 Softcover New Reprint edition. 194 pages. 7.00x5.00x0.25 inches.

ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group Nov 2004] Softcover Neuware -In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo.What explains the seismic changes that thrust this small island nation so violently onto the world stage In part, Ian Buruma argues, the story is one of a newly united nation that felt it must play catch-up to the established Western powers, just as Germany and Italy did, a process that involved, in addition to outward colonial expansion, internal cultural consolidation and the manufacturing of a shared heritage. But Japan has always been both particularly open to the importation of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If one book is to be read in order to understand why the Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many ...

ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group] Softcover Ian Buruma studied and worked in Japan for many years. He is the author of Bad Elements, The Missionary and the Libertine, Anglomania, A Japanese Mirror, God&#8217s Dust, The Wages of Guilt, and Playing t.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2004]
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