The Meiji restoration : Japan as a global nation
目次
Introduction Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess
Part I. Global Connections:
1. Japan and the world conjuncture of 1866 Mark Metzler
2. Western whalers in 1860s Hakodate: how the Nantucket of the North Pacific connected Restoration-era Japan to global flows Noell H. Wilson
3. Small town, big dreams: a Yokohama merchant and the transformation of Japan Simon Partner
4. The global weapons trade and the Meiji Restoration: dispersion of means of violence in a world of emerging nation-states Harald Fuess
Part II. Internal Conflicts:
5. Mountain demons from Mito - the arrival of civil war in Echizen in 1864 Maren Ehlers
6. 'Farmer-soldiers' and local leadership in late Edo period Japan Brian Platt
7. A military history of the Boshin War Hōya Tōru
8. Imai Nobuo: a Tokugawa stalwart's path from the Boshin War to personal reinvention in the Meiji nation-state Robert Hellyer
Part III. Domestic Resolutions:
9. Settling the frontier and defending the North: the 'farmer-soldiers' in Hokkaido's colonial development and national reconciliation Steven Ivings
10. Locally ancient and globally modern: Restoration discourse and the tensions of modernity Mark Ravina
11. Ornamental diplomacy: Emperor Meiji and the monarchs of the modern world John Breen
12. The restoration of the ancient capitals of Nara and Kyoto and international cultural legitimacy in Meiji Japan Takagi Hiroshi