Inventing Japan, 1853-1964
Buruma, Ian2004
Book
Review: "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 essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin, eventually emerging under American tutelage as a pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo."--
Main title:
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 / Ian Buruma.
Author:
Buruma, Ian, author
Edition:
Modern Library paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Modern Library, 2004.©2003
Collation:
194 pages ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
"A Modern Library chronicles book."First published: 2003.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780812972863 (paperback)0812972864 (paperback)
Dewey class:
952.03
Language:
English
BRN:
435182
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -History | HISTORY 952.03 BURU | Available |