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THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
COURSE SCHEDULE
CONSIDERING HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES
Thursday,
April 24, 2008:
MEIJI
ERA (1868 - 1912) CONTINUITIES and CHANGES: ONE
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT SIX DUE
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 - 360 only.
KISSATEN DISCUSSION:
Links to the "Early Modern" in Modern Japanese History
Tuesday,
April 29, 2008:
MEIJI ERA (1868 - 1912) CONTINUITIES and CHANGES: TWO
RESEARCH PROJECT DUE
Thursday,
May 1, 2008:
CONTEMPORARY JAPAN AND THE "EARLY MODERN"
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Gluck, Carol. "The Invention of Edo", Chapter 17 in Vlastos (ed), Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pages 262 - 284.
| 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 |