Modern Japan : a social and political history /
Elise K. Tipton
- 2nd ed.
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2008
- xvii, 297 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Tokugawa background : the ideal and the real -- The mid-century crisis -- The early Meiji Revolution -- The 1880s and 1890s : defining a Japanese national identity -- Late Meiji : an end and a beginning -- An emerging mass society : demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice -- Contesting the modern in the 1930s -- The dark valley -- "Enduring the unendurable" and starting over in the "new" Japan -- Conflict and consensus in the 1950s -- The "economic miracle" -- and its underside -- The "rich country" -- The "lost decade" -- Whither Japan?