Research Catalog

Title

Japan before Perry : a short history / Conrad Totman.

Author

Totman, Conrad D.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2008, c1981.

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Details

Description

xv, 246 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Summary

"By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative survey, Conrad Totman examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in detail the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs, weaving interpretations of the major themes in Japan's cultural and political development into a rich historical narrative." -- Back cover.

Subject

• To 1868
• Japan > History > To 1868
• Japon > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1868

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes glossary.
• Originally published: Regents of the University of California, 1982.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Beginnings --- 2. Classical Japan: An Age of Aristocratic Bureaucracy --- 3. Medieval Japan: An Age of Political Fluidity --- 4. Early Modern Japan: An Age of Integral Bureacracy --- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780520254077 (pbk.)
• 0520254074 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^80014708^

OCLC

• 154697780
• SCSB-13289789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library