Defensive Positions

Noell Wilson

ISBN 10: 0674504348 / ISBN 13: 9780674504349

Published by Wiley Jun 2015, 2015

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Neuware - In Defensive Positions, Noell Wilson shows how control of coastal defense by regional domains exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to major military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security in the nineteenth century.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defensive Positions
• Publisher: Wiley Jun 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674504348
• ISBN 13: 9780674504349
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 152H x 17D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 499 grams

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Synopsis

"Defensive Positions" focuses on the role of regional domains in early modern Japan s coastal defense, shedding new light on this system s development. This examination, in turn, has significant long-term political implications for the involvement of those domains in Tokugawa state formation. Noell Wilson argues that domainal autonomy in executing maritime defense slowly escalated over the course of the Tokugawa period to the point where the "daimyo" ultimately challenged Tokugawa authorities as the primary military interface with the outside world. By first exploring localized maritime defense at Nagasaki and then comparing its organization with those of the Yokohama and Hakodate harbors during the treaty port era, Wilson identifies new, core systemic sources for the collapse of the shogunate s control of the monopoly on violence. Her insightful analysis reveals how the previously unexamined system of domain-managed coastal defense comprised a critical third element in addition to trade and diplomacy of Tokugawa external relations. Domainal control of coastal defense exacerbated the shogunate s inability to respond to important military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security as embraced by world powers in the nineteenth century."

About the Author

Noell Wilson is Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi.