The Meiji restoration : Japan as a global nation / edited by Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University; Harald Fuess, Heidelberg University

Additional Titles: Japan as a global nation
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Copyright Date: ©2020
Physical Description: xv, 284 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Hellyer, Robert I. and Fuess, Harald

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Contents

Introduction Introduction / Robert Hellyer & Harald Fuess -- Global Connections -- Japan and the World Conjuncture of 1866 / Mark Metzler -- Western Whalers in 1860s Hakodate: How the Nantuck Western Whalers of the North Pacific Connected Restoration Era Japan to Global Flows / Noell H. Wilson -- Small Town, Big Dreams: A Yokohama Merchant and Transformation of Japan / Simon Partner -- The Global Weapons Trade and the Meiji Restoration: Dispersion of Means of Violence in a World of Emerging Nation-States / Harald Fuess -- Internal Conflicts Internal Conflicts -- Mountain Demons from Mito Mountain -The Arrival of Civil War in Echizen in 1864 / Maren Ehlers -- "Farmer-Soldiers" and Local Leadership in Late Edo Period Japan / Brian Platt -- A Military History of the Boshin War / Hōya Tōru -- Imai Nobuo: A Tokugawa Stalwart's Path From the Boshin War to Personal Reinvention in the Meiji Nation-State / Robert Hellyer -- Domestic Resolutions -- Settling the Frontier and Defending the North: the"Farmer-Soldiers" in Hokkaido's Colonial Development and National Reconciliation / Steven Ivings -- Locally Ancient and Globally Modern: Restoration Discourse and the Tensions of Modernity Modernity / Mark Ravina -- Ornamental Diplomacy: Emperor Meiji and the Monarchs of the Modern World / John Breen -- The Restoration of the Ancient Capitals of Nara and Kyoto and International Cultural Legitimacy in Meiji Japan / Takagi Hiroshi.

Summary

"The Meiji Restoration began largely in private within the grounds of Kyoto's Imperial Palace. Following meetings that commenced the previous day, on the morning of January 3, 1868, an alliance led by samurai from the Satsuma and Chōshū domains seized control of the palace complex, thereby assuring their influence over the young emperor, Mutsuhito. Later that day, alliance leaders proclaimed the restoration of imperial rule.1 In response to the proclamation, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who had abdicated his position as shogun a few months earlier, deployed his forces near Kyoto. In the ensuing Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the alliance achieved a surprisingly easy victory and continued to press its military advantage in central and northern Honshu throughout 1868 in what became known as the Boshin War (1868-1869)."--

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9781108478052 (hardback)
1108478050 (hardback)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Ann Menges Libraries Endowment

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