Cambridge History Of Japan Volume 6 Pdf

[Mickie Bottiglieri]

TheCambridge History of Japan is a multi-volume survey of Japanese history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). This was the first major collaborative synthesis presenting the current state of knowledge of Japanese history.[1] The series aims to present as full a view of Japanese history as possible.[2] The collaborative work brings together the writing of Japanese specialists and historians of Japan.[1]

Castalia Library extremely pleased to announce that the Library has recently acquired the special deluxe publishing rights to THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF JAPAN. This will be a highly-collectible, very limited edition set of nine volumes bound in calfskin, with a total print run of 250 sets.

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF JAPAN is the first major collaborative synthesis to present the current state of knowledge of Japanese history for the English-reading world. The series draws on the expertise and research of leading Japanese specialists as well as the foremost Western historians of Japan. From prehistory to the present day, the series encompasses the events and developments in Japanese polity, economy, culture, religion and foreign affairs. In the distinguished tradition of Cambridge histories, the completed series provides an indispensable reference tool for all students and scholars of Japan and the Far East.

The massive historical set, which is published by Cambridge University Press in 4,740 pages divided into six very large books, is very highly regarded as the definitive work on the subject of Japanese history.

Due to the fact that three of the hardcovers exceed our quality standard for spine width, each of those three will be divided into two volumes ranging from 422 to 440 pages, thereby bringing the total number of books in the deluxe Castalia Library set to 9 volumes. We have not yet settled on the pricing, or decided upon the titles of the three additional volumes, but we expect to announce those things in April. We can confirm that both single-payment and monthly-subscription options will be available.

\u201CA tour de force that at once represents the culmination of several generations of scholarship and heralds the advent of a new level of sophistication in the study of Japan's early modern history.\u201D - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

\u201CEssays by six American and six Japanese specialists provide readers with significant new perspectives and detailed information on political and economic institutions, foreign relations, and cultural developments...will be required reading for anyone wishing to take the measure of medieval Japanese historiography in English.\u201D - Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History

\u201CA project that bears the marks of careful planning and organization by experienced editors who are themselves distinguished historians of Japan....Clearly written and free of jargon, all essays contain topical subheadings that are helpfully placed at the top of the pages as well as within the texts.\u201D - Canadian Journal of History

\u201CAll teachers, students, and researchers into Japan's past should be grateful that there is now an authoritative source describing the entirety of Japanese political and cultural history in greater detail that ever before.\u201D - Monumenta Nipponica

Japan has played a key role in spurring this transformation. Once an isolated island society, little known to its neighbours and practically unknown to the West, Japan has emerged today as a leading economic power. The country's rise to a position of international prominence has not been a smooth process, however - it has come only after a period of turmoil and conflict. Volume 6 provides a general introduction to Japan's history during the first three quarters of the twentieth century, with emphasis on political, economic, social and intellectual trends. Leading historians have contributed essays dealing with the development of domestic politics, particularly the politics of representative institutions, and Japan's relations with the outside world, including its prewar territorial expansion and aggrandizement on the Asian continent. Although written by specialists, this volume will be an important reference work for general readers as well as scholars and students of modern Japanese history.

This volume in the authoritative Cambridge History of China is devoted to the history of the Ming dynasty, with some account of the three decades before the dynasty's formal establishment, and of the Ming Courts, which survived in South China for a generation after 1644. Volume 7 deals primarily with political developments of the period, but it also incorporates background in social, economic, and cultural history where this is relevant to the course of events. The Ming period is the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han dynasty. The success of the Chinese in regaining control over their own government is an important event in history, and the Ming dynasty thus has been regarded, both in Ming times and even more so in this century, as an era of Chinese resurgence. The volume provides the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarizing all modern research in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages, the authors have gone far beyond a summary of the state of the field, but have incorporated original research on subjects that have never before been described in detail. Volume 7 will be followed by a topical volume of Ming history (Volume 8) that will offer detailed studies of institutional changes, international relations, social and economic history, and the history of ideas and of religion.

As an economic historian, my research interest centers on the long-run economic growth of China and East Asia. My Phd dissertation focused on the comparative paths of modernization of China and Japan through a case study of the production and export of silk during 1850-1936. Since then, the scope of my research extends to encompass growth, development and industrialization as well as political, legal and intellectual history, often placing Chinese developments in a comparative and global context. For the past two decades, I have actively engaged in the Great Divergence debate on why the Industrial Revolution occurred in England but not in China or elsewhere, one of the most important and fascinating questions in global history today.

My research adopts both qualitative and quantitative approches. It combines the employment of multi-lingual sources, the construction of large scale data sets culled from primary sources with the application and development of conceptual and theoretical frameworks to explain long-term economic and institutional trajectories. Although the bulk of my works focus on China and East Asia, I have had long and productive collaborations with a wide array of scholars, both mainstream economic historians and experts across different areas and disciplines. My research has been published in academic journals, edited books and book chapters, in English as well as in Chinese and Japanese, across a variety of disciplines such as economics, economic history, accounting history and area studies. In collaboration with Loren Brandt (University of Toronto) and Thomas Rawski (University of Pittsburgh), I have published an extended review article that offers a comprehensive reassessment of modern Chinese economic history in the Journal of Economic Literature in 2014. Recently, I have co-edited with Richard von Glahn of UCLA a two volume Cambridge Economic History of China, the first of its kind on Chinese economic history in the prestigious Cambridge history series. The two massive volumes bring together leading economic historians on China from around the world and contain over 40 chapters providing the most comprehensive coverage of Chinese economic history from prehistoric times to the contemporary era.

China's rise as the world's second-largest economy surely is the most dramatic development in the global economy since the year 2000. Volume II, which spans China's two turbulent centuries from 1800, charts this wrenching process of an ancient empire being transformed to re-emerge as a major world power. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of pioneering international scholarship in all dimensions of economic history to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of this tumultuous and dramatic transformation.

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