Michael Alan Thornton

Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan's ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in Modern Japan
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781793641892
• ISBN-10: 1793641897
• Artikelnr.: 62756190

Autorenporträt

Michael Alan Thornton is postdoctoral associate in the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names and Dates
Map of Japan
Map of Mito Domain
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Origins of Mito Domain and Tokugawa Mitsukuni's "Golden Age"
Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Mito: Crisis, Reform, and the Birth of the
Late Mito School
Chapter 3: "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian": Mito in the Age of
Imperialism
Chapter 4: The Politics of Mito's Tenp¿ Reforms
Chapter 5: Nariaki, Yoshinobu, and the Birth of Modern Japan
Chapter 6: The Violent Restoration: Civil War and the End of Mito Domain
Conclusion: Mito and Modern Japan
Bibliography
About the Author