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Andrew Gordon’s "A Modern History of Japan" offers a comprehensive look at Japan’s evolution from the Tokugawa political settlement and its social-economic dynamics, through the intellectual currents and crises that precipitated the 1868 revolution. The book continues to trace the successive eras—Meiji, Taishō, Showa, and Heisei—highlighting the enduring influences of earlier periods on Japan’s modern state and society.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Andrew Gordon
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