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Mito and the Politics of Reform in Early Modern Japan
New Studies in Modern Japan
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44,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
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| Veröffentl.: | 28.01.2022 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781793641908 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 264 |
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<p><span>This book examines early modern Mito, today an ordinary provincial capital on the outskirts of the Tokyo commuter belt, but once the headquarters of Mito Domain, one of the most consequential places in all of Japan. As one of just three senior branches of the Tokugawa family—which ruled over Japan for 260 years—Mito’s ruling family enjoyed unparalleled status and exerted enormous influence throughout its history. In the seventeenth century, its scholars produced some of early modern Japan’s most important historical scholarship. In the eighteenth century, it developed a robust and pragmatic program of reform to confront depopulation and foreign threats. In the nineteenth century, it became the birthplace of a revolutionary ideology that transformed Japan into a modern, imperial nation. The power of these ideas swept across Japan, inspiring activists everywhere to take up the cause of building a new nation—but they also devastated Mito, leading to a brutal civil war that scarred its people for generations. This book complements existing studies of Mito’s ideas by focusing on the history of Mito as a place and telling the stories of Mito’s politicians, reformers, and ordinary people from the beginning of the domain’s history to its end. </span></p>
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<p><span>This book takes the perspective of Mito Domain, one of three branches of Japan’s ruling Tokugawa shogunate, to explore the dynamic history of political reform in early modern Japan. This book, while grounded in Mito, examines the role that this domain and its people played in the birth of the modern Japanese nation-state in the nineteenth century.</span></p>
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<p><span>Foreword</span></p>
<p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p>
<p><span>A Note on Names and Dates</span></p>
<p><span>Map of Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Map of Mito Domain</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1: The Origins of Mito Domain and Tokugawa Mitsukuni’s “Golden Age” </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Mito: Crisis, Reform, and the Birth of the Late Mito School</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: “Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian”: Mito in the Age of Imperialism</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: The Politics of Mito’s Tenpō Reforms</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Nariaki, Yoshinobu, and the Birth of Modern Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6: The Violent Restoration: Civil War and the End of Mito Domain </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion: Mito and Modern Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Bibliography</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
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<p><span>Acknowledgments</span></p>
<p><span>A Note on Names and Dates</span></p>
<p><span>Map of Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Map of Mito Domain</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1: The Origins of Mito Domain and Tokugawa Mitsukuni’s “Golden Age” </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2: Eighteenth-Century Mito: Crisis, Reform, and the Birth of the Late Mito School</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3: “Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian”: Mito in the Age of Imperialism</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4: The Politics of Mito’s Tenpō Reforms</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5: Nariaki, Yoshinobu, and the Birth of Modern Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6: The Violent Restoration: Civil War and the End of Mito Domain </span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion: Mito and Modern Japan</span></p>
<p><span>Bibliography</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
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<p><span>Michael Alan Thornton</span><span> is postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.</span></p>
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