Chronicles the collapse of the Japanese regime
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Price: |
23.00 |
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Title: |
The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu 1862-1868 |
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Author: |
Conrad Totman |
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ISBN: |
0-8248-0614-X |
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Description: |
Hardcover (6x9), University Press of Hawaii, 1990, 2nd Printing. 588 pages. Maps. |
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Condition: |
Name inside cover otherwise clean and tight with moderate wear, mild pull top spine, dustjacket moderate wear mostly top edge, spine and corners, flaps intact. |
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Summary: |
"In a masterful reconstruction of political events, Conrad Totman chronicles the collapse of a regime and explains why the governing body known as the bakufu fell as it did when it did. Against a backdrop of confusion, assassination, and the constant pressure of foreign demands the bakufu struggled to discharge its hereditary obligation--to keep emperor and nation tranquil and safe from barbarians without and insurgents within. A world was at stake, and those who realized it cared very much. Yet nothing seemed to work. Step by step, crisis by crisis, the old order crumbled, reducing Japan's choices to those of radical reform, colonialism or chaos..." |