A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
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Schirokauer, David Lurie (both: Columbia U.) and Suzanne Gay (Oberlin College) introduce students to the standard notions of Japanese economic and political history, social structure, thought, and art—leaving controversies and innovations to students who choose to pursue the matter further. They begin with the prehistory of the Japanese archipelago, and move through early modern and late traditional Japan to Japan and the modern world into the new century. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefacePt. 1Beginnings and Foundations1Early Japan32The Impact of Continental Civilization18Pt. 2Aristocrats, Monks, and Samurai3The Heian Period454The Kamakura Period735The Ashikaga Shogunate: Integration and Disintegration96Pt. 3Late Traditional Japan6The Formation of a New Order1197The Tokugawa Shogunate: The Middle Years141Pt. 4Japan in the Modern World8Endings and Beginnings: From Tokugawa to Meiji1739The Emergence of Modern Japan: 1874-189419610The Limits of Success: 1895-193121811Contemporary Japan26412Contemporary Japan264Suggestions for Further Reading299Index311
