Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan

by Marius B. Jansen

Book Overview

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000131
• ISBN13: 9780691000138
• Release Date: October 1970
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.