The Meiji Unification Through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture

by James C. Baxter

Credit for the swift unification of Japan following the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate is usually given to the national leaders who instigated the coup and formed the new Meiji government. But is brilliant leadership at the top sufficient to explain how regional separatist tendencies and loyalties to the old lords were overcome in the formation of a nationally unified state? On the contrary, argues James C. Baxter. Though plans were drawn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674564669
• ISBN13: 9780674564664
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.3"