Author: Kazuhiro, Takii.
Title: The Meiji Constitution. The Japanese experience of the West and the shaping of the modern state. Translated by David Noble. [1st English edition].
Description: [Tokyo, International House of Japan, 2007]. XIX,196 pp. B./w. text ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). 8vo. - Owner's s stamp on first free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy.This book is a detailed examination of the intellectual and cultural history that gave birth to Japan's Meiji Constitution at the end of the nineteenth century. In this book, the author employs a cross-cultural perspective to analyze how modern Western ideas of constitutional government were assimilated and adapted by the newly established Meiji state. [Book cover flap]. - Translation of the original JApanese dition: Tokyo, Kodansha, 2003.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Japan History Asia Geschiedenis / Azië(Japan) Etnografie Azië Geschiedenis Azië Geschiedenis / Azië(Japan)