@article{889704,
      note = {Originally published in Japan by Shinchōsha, 2017, under  title: "Ishin kakumei" e no michi.},
      author = {Karube, Tadashi, and Noble, David,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889704},
      title = {Toward the Meiji revolution : the search for  "civilization" in nineteenth-century Japan = ["Ishin  kakumei" eno michi : "bunmei" o motometa jūkyūseiki  nihon] /},
      abstract = {"In 2018 Japan marked the 150th anniversary of the  collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establishment of  a new government under Emperor Meiji. This was not simply a  transfer of political authority but instead signaled  revolutionary transformation in Japan, including the  abolition of the domains and the formation of a modern  nation-state in the years that followed. A period of  radical social change was ushered in, with the abolition of  the class system, the introduction of Western thought and  technology, the development of mass media, and the  establishment of constitutional government. The impact on  Japan of diplomatic, economic, and cultural pressure from  the United States and other Western powers from 1853 onward  was previously thought to be the immediate catalyst of this  'Meiji Revolution.' But Japan's modern transformation was  rooted in a much deeper process of social and intellectual  development that gradually unfolded throughout the latter  half of the Tokugawa period. Surveying a diverse group of  thinkers spanning the Tokugawa and early Meiji years --  Ogyū Sorai, Yamagata Bantō, Motoori Norinaga, Rai  San'yō, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Takekoshi Yosaburō, and others  -- this ambitious book liberates modern Japanese history  from the stereotypical narrative of 'Japanese spirit and  Western technique,' offering a detailed examination of the  elements in Tokugawa thought and culture that spurred Japan  to articulate its own unique conception of civilization  during the course of the nineteenth century." --},
      recid = {889704},
      pages = {255 pages :},
}