Published by Princeton University Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0691000131 ISBN 13: 9780691000138
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: Good. This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization.