Cambridge University Press 1996 Hard cover Volume 5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1350grams, ISBN: 0521223563.

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1989 First Edition. Hardback. Hardback Fine First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp xii, 828. Original publisher's red cloth with lettered gilt at spine. NO DJ. ISBN: 0521223563 May show some slight shelfwear but content clean and unread. Very good indeed.

ISBN10: 0521223563, ISBN13: 9780521223560, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume covers the end of feudal society and the shogunate in Japan, and the growing power of the emperor.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]
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ISBN10: 0521223563, ISBN13: 9780521223560, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. The Nineteenth Century provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state. This volume traces the roots and course of political, social, and institutional change that took place in Japan from late Tokugawa times to the early twentieth century. During this period Japan, under pressure from the intrusive West, abandoned its policy of national seclusion and remodeled its institutions to build the strength necessary to join the great powers and to fashion an empire in East Asia. It was an era remarkable for sweeping changes undertaken in the name of tradition, symbolized by the shift of authority from the shogun as military hegemon to the emperor who professed to cloak his sacrosanct prerogatives in constitutional procedures. The volume consists of an interrelated collection of authoritative and analytical chapters by specialists in the history of nineteenth-century Japan that discuss the fissures in late feudal society, the impact of and responses to the West, the overthrow of the shogunal government, and the revolutionary changes that were instituted as defensive measures to strengthen the country against what seemed a dangerous competition with the Western world. All of the chapters are based on current research and were writeen for students and scholars ...
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ISBN10: 0521223563, ISBN13: 9780521223560, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume covers the end of feudal society and the shogunate in Japan, and the growing power of the emperor.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]
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ISBN10: 0521223563, ISBN13: 9780521223560, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover 844 Seiten; 9780521223560.3 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2
[Stuttgart, Germany] [Publication Year: 1989]