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A History of Japan

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ISBN: 978-0-631-21447-2

June 2000

Wiley-Blackwell

660 pages

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Description
This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 bc to the 1990s.
About the Author
Conrad Totman is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He has also taught Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Northwestern University. He is the author of ten previous books, including Japan before Perry: A Short History (1981), Early Modern Japan (1993), and Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective (2004).
Features

  • Provides a complete history of the region from 8000 BC to the present day.
  • Covers all varieties of history from cultural and social to economic and environmental.