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Inventing Japan, 1853-1964
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Hardcover
from Modern Library (February 4, 2003)
9780679640851 | details & prices | 194 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Traces the history of Japan from the country's nineteenth-century feudal isolation, to its rise to military power and defeat during World War II, to its rebirth as a global economic and working democracy in the postwar era.
About: Traces the history of Japan from the country's nineteenth-century feudal isolation, to its rise to military power and defeat during World War II, to its rebirth as a global economic and working democracy in the postwar era.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Modern Library (November 1, 2004); titled "Inventing Japan: 1853-1964"
9780812972863 | details & prices | 194 pages | 5.00 × 7.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $16.00
About: 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.
About: 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.