This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of early modern Japan. The period from about 1580 to 1877 saw the reunification of Japan after a long period of civil war, followed by two and a half centuries of peace and stability under the Tokugawa shogunate, and closing with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which laid the foundation for a modern nation-state. With essays from leading international scholars, this volume emphasizes Japan's place in global history and pays close attention to gender and environmental history. It introduces readers to recent scholarship in fields including social history, the history of science and technology, intellectual history, and book history. Drawing on original research, each chapter situates its primary source material and novel arguments in the context of close engagement with secondary scholarship in a range of languages. The volume underlines the importance of Japan in the global early modern world.
Volume II in this major new reference series brings together leading international scholars to present an expansive global vision of the latest research into Japanese history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
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Volume II in this major new reference series places Japanese history from c. 1580 to 1877 in its Asian and global contexts.
Introduction: Genealogies of Japanese early modernity David L. Howell;
Part I. The Character of the Early Modern State:
1. The end of civil war and
the formation of the early modern state in Japan Morgan Pitelka;
2. Politics
and political thought in the mature early modern state in Japan,
16501830 Kiri Paramore;
3. Regional authority during the Tokugawa period
David L. Howell;
4. Tokugawa philosophy: a socio-historical introduction
Federico Marcon;
5. Foreign relations and coastal defense under the mature
Tokugawa regime Robert Hellyer;
6. The Meiji restoration Mark Ravina; Part
II. Economy, Environment and Technology:
7. International economy and Japan
at the dawn of the early modern era Adam Clulow;
8. The Tokugawa economy: of
rulers, producers and consumers Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Komuro Masamichi;
9.
The pacific context of Japan's environmental history Brett L. Walker;
10.
Scientific communities and the emergence of science in early modern Japan
Yulia Frumer;
11. The problem of western knowledge in late Tokugawa Japan
Hansun Hsiung;
12. Technology, military reform and warfare in the
TokugawaMeiji transition D. Colin Jaundrill; Part III. Social Practices and
Cultures of Early Modern Japan:
13. Religion in the Tokugawa period Mark
Teeuwen;
14. The medical revolution in early modern Japan Susan L. Burns;
15.
Flows of people and things in early modern Japan: print culture Laura Nenzi;
16. Labor and migration in Tokugawa Japan: moving people Amy Stanley;
17. The
Tokugawa status order Maren Ehlers;
18. On the peripheries of the Japanese
archipelago: Ryukyu and Hokkaido David L. Howell;
19. The early modern city
in Japan Thomas Gaubatz;
20. Popular movements in early modern Japan:
petitions, riots, martyrs Anne Walthall;
21. Civilization and enlightenment
in early Meiji Japan Amin Ghadimi.
David L. Howell is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Professor of History at Harvard University.
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