@article{287924,
      note = {"A Modern Library chronicles book."},
      author = {Buruma, Ian.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/287924},
      title = {Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 /},
      publisher = {The Modern Library,},
      abstract = {Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's  history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation  as any country has ever known. In the course of little more  than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry  arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial  realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that  essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and  American empires in Asia before plunging to utter ruin,  eventually emerging under American tutelage as a  pseudo-Western-style democracy and economic dynamo. Japan  has always been both particularly open to the importation  of good ideas and particularly prickly about keeping their  influence quarantined, a bipolar disorder that would have  dramatic consequences and that continues to this day. If  one book is to be read in order to understand why the  Japanese seem so impossibly strange to many Americans,  Inventing Japan is surely it.},
      recid = {287924},
      pages = {194 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2003},
}