9780804850698-0804850690-Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai

Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai

ISBN-13: 9780804850698
ISBN-10: 0804850690
Author: Romulus Hillsborough
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover 608 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780804850698
ISBN-10: 0804850690
Author: Romulus Hillsborough
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Hardcover 608 pages

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Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai (ISBN-13: 9780804850698 and ISBN-10: 0804850690), written by authors Romulus Hillsborough, was published by Tuttle Publishing in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Japan (Asian History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Japan books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.24.

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See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it — as well as those who fought against it — in this exploration of Samurai history.

Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's historic transformation at the end of the nineteenth century from a country of shoguns, feudal lords and samurai to a modern industrialized nation. The book covers the turbulent Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912, widely considered "the dawn of modern Japan," a time of Samurai history in which those who choose to cling to their traditional bushido way of life engaged in frequent and often deadly clashes with champions of modernization. Knowledge of this period is essential to understand how and why Japan evolved into the nation it is today.

The book opens with the fifteen-year fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had ruled Japan for over 250 years, and the restoration of the Meiji emperor to a position of power at the expense of the feudal Daimyo lords. It chronicles the bloody first decade of the newly reestablished monarchy, in which the new government worked desperately to consolidate its power and introduce the innovations that would put Japan on equal footing with the Western powers threatening to dominate it. Finally, Samurai Revolution goes on to tell the story of the Satsuma Rebellion, a failed coup attempt that is widely viewed as the final demise of the samurai class in Japan.

This book is the first comprehensive history and analysis in English that includes all the key figures from this dramatic time in Japanese politics and society, and is the result of over twenty-five years of research focused on this critical period in Japanese history. The book contains numerous original translations of crucial documents and correspondence of the time, as well as photographs and maps.

Samurai Revolution goes in-depth to reveal how one era of ended and another began.
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