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Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times
John Whitney Hall
出版
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
, 1991
主題
History / Asia / General
History / Asia / Japan
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General
ISBN
0939512548
9780939512546
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=y_99AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times
has a heavy emphasis upon the premodern period of Japanese history. No attempt has been made to provide the usual kind of textbook completeness. Hall's fascination with Japanese history lies within the manner in which Japan's political and social institutions have changed and diversified over time and how this fundamentally "Eastern" culture gave rise to a modern world power. Japan is today a modern nation in the full sense of the term. Yet its history is less familiar to us than the histories of those Western powers that it has now outstripped, or of the other countries of Asia that have gained recognition as the birthplaces of ancient civilizations or world religions. Japanese history does not force itself upon the world's attention as does the mainstream of European history or the exotic chronicles of China or India. Its significance has become apparent only in proportion to the recognition Japan has gained as a modern state and as scholars have begun to place Japanese history within a world context.