ASIAN STUDIES 284c - d-ESD,IP.The Emergence of Modern Japan

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2007. THOMAS CONLAN. What constitutes a modern state How durable are cultures and civilizations Examines the patterns of culture in a state that managed to expel European missionaries in the seventeenth century, and came to embrace all things Western as being "civilized" in the mid-nineteenthcentury. Compares the unique and vibrant culture of Tokugawa Japan with the rapid program of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, which resulted in imperialism, international wars, and ultimately, the postwar recovery. (Same as History 284.)

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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