Samurai to Soldier by D Colin Jaundrill
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill traces the radical changes to Japanese military institutions, as well as the consequences of military reforms in his accounts of the Boshin War (18681869) and the Satsuma Rebellions of 1877. He shows how pre-1868 developments laid the foundations for the army that would secure Japan's Asian empire.Jaundrill's impressively researched study traces the origin of the modern Japanese military to the 1840s, when one martial arts teacher introduced a more westernized style of musketry and artillery training based on the Dutch example
(Foreign Affairs)An enthralling story with numerous twists and turns.... We already know a fair amount about the role the modern Japanese military played in inspiring innovations in science and public health, as well as in more generally modernizing society at large. Jaundrill provides a much-needed inverse perspective on what such innovations meant for the military by elucidating how the enormous conscription obstacles were overcome.... Historians of military and war in the Japan field have much favored writing about earlier periods—or of the Imperial armed forces of the twentieth century, particularly of the Asia-Pacific War. Samurai to Soldier constitutes an important missing link between these two strongholds.
(Cross-Currents)... a genuine contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century Japan—rich in detail, but also focused and succinct.
(Monumenta Nipponica)D. Colin Jaundrill's Samurai to Soldier is an important, well-argued book that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of Japan's transition from the Tokugawa to Meiji periods.
(Harvard Asia Pacific Review)D. Colin Jaundrill is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501703096 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501703099 |
| Title | Samurai to Soldier |
| Author | D Colin Jaundrill |
| Series | Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2016-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Prizes | Winner of Foreign Affairs "Best Book" 2017 (United States) |
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