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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Softcover Concise and enlightening overview of the period from Commodore Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853 to the emergence of Japan in the aftermath of World War II. ".takes fewer than two hundred pages to artfully donsense a century of modern Japanese history." 194 pages, Prologue, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index. Published @ $12.95.
[Riverside, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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[Suffolk, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.] Softcover 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. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]
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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House] Softcover pp. 208
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House] Softcover pp. 208
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Random House USA Inc] Softcover Paperback. In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japans 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 Americans, Inventing ...
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[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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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: 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: Random House Publishing Group 2004-11-09, New York] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]

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ISBN10: 0812972864, ISBN13: 9780812972863, [publisher: Modern Library] Softcover signs of little wear on the cover.
[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

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[Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]