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Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History (Paperback)
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Alternative Narratives in Modern Japanese History (Paperback)
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How did ordinary people experience Japan's modern transformation?
What role did people in local areas play in the making of modern
Japan? How do studies of local politics help explain national
events? The dominant account of modern Japanese history focuses on
the nation-building that brought Japan into the modern world. After
centuries of isolation, American warships forced Japan to open its
doors to the West and a group of tough new leaders transformed the
country into one of the great military and economic powers of the
world. But different perspectives need to be examined. Alternative
Narratives introduces other actors, other places and other
dimensions of social and political activity in an attempt to
construct a broader and more complex account of modern Japanese
history. Focusing on the initial years of Japan's modern
transformation, from the 1850s to the 1890s, Steele explores
responses of commoners to the arrival of American warships in 1853;
the growth of popular political consciousness; reactions of the
residents of Edo in 1868 on the deposition of the shogun; responses
of the village elite to the fall of the old regime; and established
frameworks of historical narration - including American attempts to
understand Japan's 1868 civil war. The author draws upon a wealth
of documents, including broadsheets, woodblock prints, political
cartoons and local campaign literature, as well as more
conventional material in an endeavour to find new and different
ways to examine the past. This book forms an important resource to
students of Japanese history and culture while simultaneously
appealing to scholars interested in the general problem of history
and history-writing.
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