Acknowledgments
Note to Reader
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Almost Perpetual Peace
Chapter 2: The Crisis of Imperialism
Chapter 3: Reform and Revolution
Chapter 4: A Newly Ancient Japan
Chapter 5: The Impatient Nation
Chapter 6: The Prudent Empire
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Mark Ravina is Professor of History at Emory University. He is the author of The Last Samurai and Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan.
"It is rare to find a text which focuses so much on the Meiji's
internationalization in the particular way which this text
does...Ravina's book is rich in cultural and intellectual history,
and is wide-randing geographical and temporal boundaries make for
an engaging read for those interested in macro-level analyses." --
Scott C.M. Bailey, Kansai Gaidai University, Journal of World
History
"by accentuating a robust history of Japanese reform and global
engagement, Ravina offers important clues to how a truly global
history of change in nineteenth-century Japan might look" --
Frederick R. Dickinson, Pacific Affairs
"[O]ffers a wonderful reinterpretation of the overthrow of the
Tokugawa regime and the emergence of the modern Japanese
nation-state in the 19th century. The book is replete with
insightful observations and contributes in many new ways to
understanding this pivotal event....Highly
recommended."--CHOICE
"A timely reinterpretation of the social and political
transformations of the early Meiji period, this book is essential
reading for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of Japan's place
in the modern world. Tracing the confluence of global and local
forces of change, as well as the impact of lessons remembered from
the deeper past, it offers an impressively broad-ranging account of
this most consequential of historical moments."--Daniel Botsman,
Yale
University
"This wonderful new history of the Meiji Restoration banishes once
and for all the old image of a passive Japan reacting to pressures
from the West. Mark Ravina emphasizes Japanese agency in its
dealing with the imperialist powers as well as the continued
importance of China to the Meiji leaders. In his discussion of
domestic politics, he gives the Tokugawa shogunate credit for
anticipating many of the modernizing reforms implemented by the
Meiji state. Ravina
has given us a refreshing and important new survey of one of the
modern world's great revolutions."--David L. Howell, Harvard
University
"To Stand with the Nations of the World releases Japanese history
from East-West, tradition-modernity binaries, freeing it to
participate in the global history of nation-state formation and
nineteenth-century imperialism. In this enthralling
reinterpretation of the Meiji Restoration, Ravina highlights the
skilled political discourse that integrated universal ideals with
Japan's distinctive past."--Julia Adeney Thomas, author of
Reconfiguring
Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
"By many accounts, Japan's new leaders after 1868 demonstrated an
uncanny knack for creating a modern nation-state along Western
lines. One of the leading experts of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras,
Ravina instead reveals the considerable tensions among early modern
precedents, ancient imperial models, and populist and statist
visions in efforts to embed Japan in the emerging global
order."--Sheldon Garon, author of Molding Japanese Minds: The State
in
Everyday Life
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