Author: Hiroshi, Watanabe.
Title: A history of Japanese political thought,1600-1901.
Description: Tokyo, International House of Japan, [etc.], [2012]. XIV,543 pp. B./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards), d./j. 8vo. (LTCB International Library Selection, No. 30).Originally published in Japanese as: Nihon seiji shisoshi. 7-20 seiki (Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 2010). Translated by David Noble. - - In 1853 a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted two and a half centuries, was at an end. What lay behind the sudden collapse of samurai rule? Watanabe Hiroshi traces the quiet changes in political thought that culminated in the dramatic events of the Meiji Revolution in 1868.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia Japan Politics Politiek / Azië Japan Etnografie Azië Politiek Politiek / Azië Politiek / Azië(Japan)