A History of Japan : History of Japan.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions Used -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART I: BEGINNINGS -- Introduction to Part I -- Chronology of Part I -- 1 GEOLOGY, CLIMATE, AND BIOTA -- Japan's Geography Today -- The Geological Heritage -- The Influence Of Climate and Ocean Currents -- The Biotic Inheritance -- 2 FROM ORIGINS TO AGRICULTURE -- Early Foragers -- Later Foragers -- The Emergence of Agriculture -- PART II: THE AGE OF DISPERSED AGRICULTURALISTS (400 BCE-1250 CE) -- Introduction to Part II -- Chronology of Part II -- 3 POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION TO 671 CE -- Continental Influences -- Material Foundations -- The Struggle for Hegemony -- 4 ESTABLISHING THE RITSURYŌ ORDER (672-750) -- A Political Narrative -- The Sources -- Establishing a Capital City -- Forming a State Church -- The Ritsuryō State at 750 -- The Broader Context -- 5 RITSURYŌ ADAPTATION AND DECAY (750-1250) -- A Political Narrative -- The Elements of Stability -- Forces for Change -- 6 CLASSICAL HIGHER CULTURE(750-1250) -- The Beginnings -- Flowering: The Sekkanke Heyday -- Broadening: The Later Years -- PART III: THE AGE OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE (1250-1890) -- Introduction to Part III -- Chronology of Part III -- 7 THE CENTURIES OF DISORDER (1250-1550) -- Trends in Production and Distribution -- A Political Narrative -- 8 MEDIEVAL HIGHER CULTURE(1250-1550) -- Kenmon Culture -- Religious Developments -- Vocal Literature -- 9 ESTABLISHING THE BAKUHAN ORDER (1550-1700) -- A Political Narrative -- The Bakuhan System at 1700 -- 10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590-1700) -- Dimensions of Expansion -- Kyoto Revived -- Enriching a Common Higher Culture -- 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700-1850) -- Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications -- Cultural and Political Trends.

12 CRISIS AND REDIRECTION (1800-1890) -- Foreign Complications -- Redirection: Toward Industrialism -- PART IV: THE AGE OF INDUSTRIALISM: EARLY DECADES (1890-PRESENT) -- Introduction to Part IV -- Chronology of Part IV -- 13 EARLY IMPERIAL TRIUMPH (1890-1914) -- Domestic Political Process -- Becoming an Imperial Power -- Domestic Growth -- 14 EARLY IMPERIAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE (1890-1914) -- Social Issues -- Articulate Culture -- 15 LATER IMPERIAL POLITICS AND ECONOMY (1914-1945) -- The Politics of Disorder -- Domestic Growth -- 16 LATER IMPERIAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE (1914-1945) -- Social Issues -- Articulate Culture -- 17 DRIFT TO DISASTER (1914-1945) -- The Diplomacy of Disorder -- Into the Global Maelstrom -- 18 ENTREPRENEURIAL JAPAN: POLITICS AND ECONOMY (1945-1990) -- The Diplomatic Context -- Survival and Redirection (1945-1960) -- Shōwa Genroku (1960-1990) -- 19 SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT(1945-1990) -- Social Issues -- Environmental Issues -- 20 THE CULTURE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ]APAN (1945-1990) -- Media and Messages -- Modes of Cultural Expression -- EPILOGUE: JAPAN TODAY AND TOMORROW -- Immediate Issues -- The Larger Picture -- Notes -- Appendices -- A Supplemental Tables -- B Chinese Words: Wade-Giles and Pinyin Orthographies -- C Glossary of Japanese Terms -- D Supplemental Readings -- Index.

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