How did an isolated island shogunate become an industrial great power in two generations? Pyle's classic survey answers with unusual clarity, tracing Japan from the late Tokugawa era through the postwar economic miracle. A longtime standard in university courses and still one of the most readable single-volume accounts of Japan's transformation modernization engineered from above by pragmatic elites determined to catch up with the West. First edition paperback from 1978.
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How did an isolated island shogunate become an industrial great power in two generations? Pyle's classic survey answers with unusual clarity, tracing Japan from the late Tokugawa era through the postwar economic miracle. A longtime standard in university courses and still one of the most readable single-volume accounts of Japan's transformation modernization engineered from above by pragmatic elites determined to catch up with the West. First edition paperback from 1978.
Read here for free on my Are.na source https://www.are.na/block/48072617
