Itō Hirobumi : Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji Constitution / Takii Kazuhiro ;...
Itō Hirobumi : Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji Constitution / Takii Kazuhiro ;...
Itō Hirobumi : Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji Constitution / Takii Kazuhiro ; translated by Takechi Manabu ; edited by Patricia Murray.
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London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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G 2015/1607
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English
Japanese
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xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Encounter with Western civilization -- A constitution for Japan : building the foundation -- Itō the constitutional evangelist -- Creating a society for knowledge : the Seikyūkai -- Consolidating the national structure : the constitutional reforms of 1907 -- Itō and China -- Foste...
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London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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England
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2014.
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"The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan's modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight about Itō's thought and vision for Japan's modernisation based on research in primary sources. It outlines Itō's life: the son of a poor farmer, h...
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Itō Hirobumi : Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji Constitution / Takii Kazuhiro ; translated by Takechi Manabu ; edited by Patricia Murray.
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 94.
Nichibunken monograph series ; no. 16.
"First edition published as Ito Hitobumi : chi no seijika, as part of the Nichibunken monograph series no. 16 in 2010 by Chuo Koron Shinsha"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
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G 2015/1607
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9781315818979
9780415838863 (hardback)
041583886X (hardback)
1315818973
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952.03/10922
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