Meiji Restoration Losers by Michael Wert

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This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and “lost decade” manga, Michael Wert shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history.

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Meiji Restoration Losers by Michael Wert

This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and lost decade manga, Michael Wert shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history.
Michael Wert offers a highly readable study of the complex policies of regional memory in modern Japan* Journal of Asian Studies *
Meiji Restoration Losers is essential reading for historians of the Makumatsu or Restoration eras, and highly recommended for any scholars with an interest in modern Japanese historiography. * Pacific Affairs *
A fresh historical approach from a new generation. * Mainichi Shimbun *
A book, brimming with ambition, that takes a big first step toward understanding ‘Japan’ from a different angle. * Yomiyori Shimbun *
Michael Wert is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Marquette University.
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ISBN 13 9780674251236
ISBN 10 0674251237
Title Meiji Restoration Losers
Author Michael Wert
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 2021-02-09
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.