A History of Japan, 15821941 Internal and External Worlds [Paperback]

This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.This book offers a distinctive and penetrating overview of the internal and external pr essures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan. Louis Cullen takes an unusually broad approach that combines economic, social, and political approaches and rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography. He offers powerful new analysis of the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war. The Japan that emerges is a growing industrial power but one with little perception of the importance and nature of the external world.This book offers a distinctive and penetrating overview of the internal and external pr essures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan. Louis Cullen takes an unusually broad approach that combines economic, social, and political approaches and rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography. He offers powerful new analysis of the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war. The Japan that emerges is a growing industrial power but one with little perception of the importance and nature of the external world.Offering a distinctive overview of the pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan, Louis Cullen rejects the traditional boundaries of Japanese historiography and combines economic, social, and political approaches to create a powerful analysis. Cullen reviews the Japanese experience of expansion, social transition, industrial growth, economic crisis and war, to present an island nation that is a growing industrial power with little perception of its worldwide context.1. Introduction: Japan's internal and external worlds, 15821941; 2. Japan and its Chinese and European worlds, 15821689; 3. The Japanese economy, 16881789; 4. An age of stability: Japan's internal world in pelCx