Japan before Perry: A Short History, 25th Anniversary Edition

by C Totman (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $34.10

  By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a array of sophisticated cultural production. This work examines the origins of Japanese civilization and explores in the classical, medieval, and early-modern epochs.