The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan

Released on by Thomas M. Huber
preview-18

  • The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan Book Detail

  • Author : Thomas M. Huber
  • Release Date : 1981
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 260
  • ISBN 13 : 9780804717557
  • File Size : 21,21 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan by Thomas M. Huber PDF Summary

Book Description: Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the West nor traditional loyalty to Emperor and nation, but rather lay in class conflict and long-term institutional change. The author sees the Restoration as a revolution against feudal privilege carried out from below by a service intelligentsia of minor administrators, priests, scholars, and village officials. The book focuses on the politically most effective body of activists, those in the domain of Choshu, and on their most important leaders of the 1850s and 1860s: Yoshida Shoin, Kusaka Genzui, and Takasugi Shinsaku. It examines their social and educational background, explores their motives for acting, and follows them through their intellectual and political struggles. The final chapter explains various heretofore puzzling aspects of the Meiji period (1868-1912) in terms of its revolutionary origins, and concludes by showing that the Restoration, far from being uniquely Japanese, had many of the characteristics we associate with the great revolutions of England, France, and Russia.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan

The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 4558 Views
DOWNLOAD

Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the W

Japan, a Modern History

Japan, a Modern History

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 7369 Views
DOWNLOAD

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the invest

New Times in Modern Japan

New Times in Modern Japan

File Size : 60,60 MB
Total View : 5219 Views
DOWNLOAD

New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time l

Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan

Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan

File Size : 31,31 MB
Total View : 3544 Views
DOWNLOAD

This study of Kita Ikki, one of Japan’s influential pre-war idealogues, focuses on the twin poles of nationalism and socialism that inform his three principal