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HIS 372 / 572,
THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN

RESEARCH PROJECTS

THE FLOATING WORLD
RESEARCH PROJECT
(due Tuesday, April 1, 2008)

An investigation of an individual creative artist as representative of the modernization process at work in the Tokugawa Period townsman-dominated popular urban culture of the Floating World.

EARLY MODERN JAPAN
RESEARCH PROJECT
(due Tuesday, April 29, 2008)

An in-depth study of a topic of the individual student's personal choice illustrating the impact of the modernization process in a specific area of inquiry and investigation within the Early Modern Period of Japanese history.
This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 372/572, The History of Early Modern Japan during the Spring Semester of the 2007 - 2008 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments.  
 Last revised: January 15, 2008