Marius B. Jansen

A sweeping history of modern Japan begins in 1600 and retraces the three major upheavals in Japanese history that have helped shape it into a modern Asian nation.

The Making of Modern Japan

Cambridge University Press

John Whitney Hall

Peter Duus

Delmer Myers Brown

Donald H. Shively

William H. McCullough

Kōzō Yamamura

This comprehensive work surveys the historical events and developments in Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

The Cambridge History of Japan

Kozo Yamamura

Yamamura Kozo

Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.

Delmer M. Brown

Definitive history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the eighth century.

The Meiji Restoration of mid-nineteenth-century Japan was the outgrowth of upheaval as vital as the American Civil War or the French Revolution, and marked the beginnings of Japan as a forward-looking, unified state. The author tells the story of this crucial period of Japanese history through the career of a national hero, Sakamoto Ryoma, with Sakamoto as a symbol of Japan's enlightened growth. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Sakamato Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration

This paperback edition of chapters from The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 5, describes the transition to Meiji rule.

The Emergence of Meiji Japan

Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience.

Jansen tells the story of the Restoration in the career and thought of Sakamoto Ryoma and, to a lesser extent, Nakaoka Shintaro, each an example of the new type of political leader: idealistic, individualistic, and patriotic.

Sakamoto Ry?ma and the Meiji Restoration

Gilbert Rozman

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the 1850s to the 1880s has usually been treated in terms of politics and foreign relations. Yet those decades were also of pivotal importance in Japan's institutional modernization. As the Japanese entered the world order, they experienced a massive introduction of Western-style organizations. Sweeping reforms, without the class violence or the Utopian appeal of revolution, created the foundation for a modern society. The Meiji Restoration introduced a political transformation, but these chapters address the more gradual social transition. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

From Tokugawa to Meiji

Japan in Transition

This volume provides the most comprehensive treatment in Western literature of the Heian period, the Japanese imperial court's golden age.

Marius B. Jansen

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