Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 / Ian Buruma.
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 / Ian Buruma.
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Publisher
New York : Modern Library, 2003.
Date
2003.
Call Numbers
N952.03/31
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Prologue: The Tokyo Olympics -- 1. The Black Ships -- 2. Civilization and Enlightenment -- 3. Ero Guro Nansensu -- 4. Ah, Our Manchuria -- 5. War Against the West -- 6. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie -- 7. 1955 and All That -- Epilogue: The End of the Postwar.
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Publisher
New York : Modern Library, 2003.
Edition
Modern Library ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that...
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Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 / Ian Buruma.
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Modern Library chronicles ; 12.
"A Modern Library chronicles book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N952.03/31
Record Identifier
74Vvl0grP66d
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ISBN
0679640851 (hc. : alk. paper)
9780679640851 (hc. : alk paper)
0679640851 (hc. : alk paper)
9780679640851 (hc. : alk. paper)
DDC
952.03
MMS ID
991017521719702626
