Beschreibung:
A controversial account that highlights Japan's twentieth-century imperialism, tracing it back to economic imperatives at the root of the 1873 crisis.
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 WESTERN WRITERS AND MEIJI HISTORY; Chapter 3 EZOGHI, KOREA AND THE FOUR GREAT WESTERN CLANS; Chapter 4 TOKUGAWA JAPAN; Chapter 5 KURUME: TAKAYAMA, MAKI AND SADA; Chapter 6 MARUYAMA, DAIRAKU, KURUME'S CONVULSIONS AND SHINT?'S 'BRIEF HISTORY'; Chapter 7 JAPANESE PERCEPTIONS OF THE 1873 SEIHEN; Chapter 8 THE NATURE OF JAPANESE IMPERIALISM; Chapter 9 THE POWER STRUGGLE IN HOKKAID?; Chapter 10 THE RULE OF LAW; Chapter 11 THE TOSA CLAN, GODAI AND THE OPENING OF KOREA; Chapter 12 CONCLUSION;