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Japan and the Japanese

Japan and the Japanese

Hildreth, Richard

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AnthropologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 9353709830
ISBN13: 9789353709839
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before steamships and treaties, Japan was still a rumour to the West. Watch Japan come into focus. In Japan and the Japanese, Richard Hildreth offers a complete historical account that ranges from government and diplomacy to the cadence of streets, schools, and shrines, sketching edo period japan as it was understood in the nineteenth century. With the narrative drive of classic japan travel writing and the documentary attention of a nineteenth century travelogue, he draws out japanese culture and customs without losing sight of the forces shaping power and everyday life. Read today, it offers a clear view of nineteenth century japan and a useful japan studies reference for context, language, and perspective. It sits at the meeting point of history, reportage, and moral debate, revealing how an outside reader tried to order a closed archipelago into facts, dates, and lived detail for all. Hildreth weighs japan politics and society, surveys religion in japan and its institutions, and records the Western framing that made early western japan accounts so influential. That period voice, preserved intact, is precisely why the book remains a primary source for historians, and why it still satisfies the curious browser and the classic-literature collector alike. This unabridged classic edition keeps the work whole, for those who want the original argument and atmosphere. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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