To Stand with the Nations of the World

Autor*innen

• Mark Ravina

Parameter

• 328 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Asien
• Geschichte
• Japan
• Sachliteratur

Mehr zum Buch

In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japanese state with the help of Western advisors. This book explains the paradox of the Meiji Restoration: revering the ancient past while embracing the foreign and new.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Einband: Paperback