A Companion to Japanese History [Paperback]

• Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
  
• Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
  
• Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
  
• Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies

List of Maps viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1
William M. Tsutsui

PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11

1 Japanese Beginnings 13
Mark J. Hudson

2 The Heian Period 30
G. Cameron Hurst III

3 Medieval Japan 47
Andrew Edmund Goble

PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67

4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69
Philip C. Brown

5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86
Edward E. Pratt

6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101
Peter Nosco

7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117
Lawrence E. Marceau

PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137

8 Restoration and Revolution 139
James L. Huffman

9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156
Stephen S. Large

10 Social and EclC