The Emergence of Meiji Japan

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This new edition brings together selected chapters from Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the transition from Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally ended centuries of warrior rule. It goes on to discuss the samurai rebellions against the Meiji Restoration, national movements for constitutional government that indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889, and Japan's twentieth-century drive to Great Power status. Cover Frontmatter Contents Preface The Tempō crisis The Tempō famine Civil disorder The foreign threat Critics and criticism Domain reforms Bakufu reforms Mizuno Tadakuni The aftermath The implications Late Tokugawa culture and thought The culture of play The play of culture Good doctrine and governance The restoration of worship and work Religions of relief Defense and wealth Cultural practice and the triumph of political centralization The Meiji Restoration Troubles within, disaster from without The Harris treaty and its aftermath The loyalists Court and camp, daimyo style The treaty ports and foreign influence Bakufu rally Regional reform Restoration The Restoration in history and historiography Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868–1885 Early rural protests The Meiji land tax and village protests Shizoku revolts The popular rights movement Conclusion Japan's drive to great-power status The foreign policy of a modern state The Meiji polity and society Consolidation of domestic and foreign affairs, 1868–1880 Domestic politics and overseas expansion, 1880–1895 Imperialism and militarism, 1895–1912 Bibliography Glossary-index