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Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan
By (Author) John Whitney Hall
By (author) Marius B. Jansen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Asian history
952.025
Hardback
410
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
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