Editor’s Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Forewords ix
4. Editor’s Preface xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. Foreword xxvii
7. Author’s Preface xxxi
8. Contents xxxiii
9. Abbreviations 2
10. Introduction 3
11. The Background of the Meiji Restoration 11
12. The Restoration 49
13. Early Industrialization 104
14. The Agrarian Settlement and Its Social Consequences 136
15. Parties and Politics 167
16. Conclusion 207
17. Selected Bibliography on Meiji Japan 211
18. Works in Western Languages 223
19. Periodical Articles in Japanese 234
20. Glossary of Japanese Terms and Phrases 235
21. Rereading E.H. Norman 245
22. Herbert Norman: Engaged Scholar, Civilized Man 248
23. The Historian in his Times: E.H. Norman and Japan 252
24. E.H. Norman’s Emergence and the Institute of Pacific Reiations 259
25. Emergence in Context 264
26. The State of Japanese Political Studies: Lessons from E.H. Norman 268
27. Emergence and After 272
28. Emergence as History 276
29. E.H. Norman and Japan’s Emergence as a Neomodern State 279
30. The Economics of the Meiji Restoration 283
31. Contributors 287
32. Index 291