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THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
CLASS SCHEDULE
Tuesday,
February 12, 2008:
ESTABLISHING THE
TOKUGAWA STATE: THE ROLE OF MILITARY AUTHORITY AND
THE SYSTEMATIC ORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL POWER
KISSATEN DISCUSSION:
Establishing "Centralized Feudalism" in Japan
Thursday,
February 14, 2008:
CONTROLING THE SOCIAL
ORDER AND
ESTABLISHING ECONOMIC
SUPPORT AND CONTROLS
Tuesday,
February 19, 2008:
DISCUSSION: THE PHILOSOPHICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR TOKUGAWA POWER
RESEARCH ESSAY TOPIC CHOICE AND WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SECOND RESEARCH ESSAY DUE
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Minear, Richard H. "A Closed Society: 1600 - 1853", "The Old Values" and "Fuji-ichi the Tycoon" in Through Japanese Eyes, Volume 1, New York: The Center for International and Education, 1987, pages 41 - 59.
Tucker, Mary Ellen. "Kaibara Ekken's Precepts on the Family", Reading 2 in Tanabe, Jr., (ed), Religions of Japan in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pages 38 - 52.
| BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE LAUNCH PAD | ESTABLISHING THE TOKUGAWA STATE | EXPLORING EARLY MODERN JAPAN | THE FLOATING WORLD | THE COLLAPSE OF THE TOKUGAWA AND THE MEIJI RESTORATION (1868) | CONSIDERING HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES | EVALUATING THE COURSE OF STUDY |
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