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260 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804717557
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 August 1981
Description
Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the West nor traditional loyalty to Emperor and nation, but rather lay in class conflict and...
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260 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804717557
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 August 1981
Description
Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the West nor traditional loyalty to Emperor and nation, but rather lay in class conflict and...