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Samurai revolution : the dawn of modern Japan seen through the eyes of the shogun's last samurai by Romulus Hillsborough is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it — as well as those who fought against it — in this exploration of Samurai history. Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's historic transformation at the end of the nineteenth century from a country of shoguns, feudal lords and samurai to a modern industrialized nation. The book covers the turbulent Meiji Period from 1868 to 1912, widely considered "the dawn of modern Japan," a time of Samurai history in which those who choose to cling to their traditional bushido way of life engaged in frequent and often deadly clashes with champions of modernization. Knowledge of this period is essential to understand how and why Japan evolved into the nation it is today. The book opens with the fifteen-year fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had ruled Japan for over 250 years, and the restoration of the Meiji emperor to a position of power at the expense of the feudal Daimyo lords. It chronicles the bloody first decade of the newly reestablished monarchy, in which the new government worked desperately to consolidate its power and introduce the innovations that would put Japan on equal foot

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Author

Romulus Hillsborough

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9784805312353

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Asian History

Rating

4.15 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14