The Meiji restoration : Japan as a global nation

The Meiji restoration

Japan as a global nation

編著
歴史
edited by Robert Hellyer, Harald Fuess
高木博志(人文科学研究所 / 分担執筆), Steven Edward Ivings(経済学研究科 / 分担執筆)
Hiroshi Takagi (人文科学研究所, 分担執筆), Steven Edward Ivings (経済学研究科, 分担執筆)
出版年月
出版社
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781108478052
頁数
284
本文言語
English

内容紹介

In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer fresh economic, social, political, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent creation of the modern Japanese nation-state. Seamlessly mixing meta- and micro-history, the authors examine how the Japanese state and Japanese people engaged with global trends of the early nineteenth century. They also explore the internal military conflicts that marked the 1860s and the process of reconciliation after 1868. They conclude with discussions of how new political, cultural, and diplomatic institutions were created as Japan emerged as a global nation, defined in multiple ways by its place in the world.

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

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