HST 570 - Origins of Modern Japan

(4 credits)

Japan from the “late feudalism” of the Tokugawa period through the first phase of Western-style modernization in the Meiji period. Themes include the perfection and decay of the samurai state, the Meiji revolution, nationalism, imperialism, and movements for social and political democracy.

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