Among the revolutionary movements which shook the
nineteenth-century world, the change of government in Japan in 1868
occupies a special place. A new, dynamic ruling class provoked the
overthrow of the old rule of the shogun and in a few years the
visible structure of feudal society disappeared. The founders of
the new Meiji rule had themselves been warriors and thought they
were able to resist foreign pressure, but very quickly they adopted
western dress gave their country a modern army, built railways and
contributed to establishing a great empire. The nature of this
transformation has been regarded by western historians as
"revolution" and "restoration" - two quite contradictory ideas. But
in this book Paul Akamatsu clarifies the picture of the forces at
work in this conversion of a backward feudal state into a modern
power in a few decades.
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