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THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
COURSE SCHEDULE
Thursday,
February 21, 2008:
POLITICAL GROWTH AND CHANGE IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN:
THE
EMERGING SAMURAI-BUREAUCRAT IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN
KISSATEN DISCUSSION:
Moving from "Late Traditional" to "Early Modern"READING ASSIGNMENT:
Ikegami Eiko. "Themes of Control and Change", Chapter 16 in The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan, Cambridge: University of Harvard Press, 1995, pages 329 - 369.
Tuesday,
February 26, 2008:
OBAMA - CLINTON DEBATE HOLIDAY
Thursday,
February 28, 2008:
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN RURAL AND
URBAN JAPAN
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Hall, John. "The Castle Town and Japan's Modern Urbanization", Chapter 10 in Hall and Jansen, eds., Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, pages 169 - 188.
Moriya Katsuhisa. "Urban Networks and Information Networks", Chapter 4 in Nakaneand Oishi, eds., Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990, pages 97 - 123.
SOCIAL GROWTH AND CHANGE IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN
Thursday,
March 6, 2008:
RELIGION, EDUCATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Kaempfer, Engelbert. "The Sangu, or Pilgrimage to Ise" from Book 3, Chapter 4 of Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey's Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000, pages 117 - 121.
Reader, Ian. "Legends, Miracles, and Faith in Kobo Daishi and the Shikoku Pilgrimage", Reading 34 in in Tanabe, Jr., (ed), Religions of Japan in Practice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pages 360 - 369.
Tuesday,
March 11, 2008:
SPRING BREAK HOLIDAY
Thursday,
March 13, 2008:
SPRING BREAK HOLIDAY
| 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 |