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Inventing Japan

Hardcover • 2003 • English

Inventing Japan

By Ian Buruma

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About the book

In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, 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. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and American empires in Asia before plunging to ut...Show more

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9781842126875

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

Inventing Japan

Format

Hardcover

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