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Japan's dramatic rise from a political backwater to a great power; an inside look at the men and their times that shaped a nation.Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's transformation from a backward country of feudal lords and samurai under the control of the shogun into a modern industrialized nation under the unifying rule of the Emperor. Japan's modern revolution spanned the third-quarter of the nineteenth century; knowledge of this history is essential to understand how and why Japan evolved into the nation it is today.Samurai Revolution is divided into two books in one complete volume. Book I chronicles the series of tumultuous and bloody events between 1853 and 1868, collectively called the Meiji Restoration, the "dawn of modern Japan," when the shogun's government was overthrown and the Emperor was restored to his ancient seat of power. Book 2 covers the first turbulent decade of the restored monarchy in which the new...
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- Author
- Romulus Hillsborough
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804850698
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Asian History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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