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Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912
by Conroy, Hilary; Davis, Sandra T. W. ; Patterson, Wayne (editors)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 083863169X
- ISBN 13
- 9780838631690
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Cranbury, NJ, U.S.A: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. This is a collection of papers from several scholarly meetings on Meiji, Japan, conducted by the Association for Asian Studies and the American Historical Association; the essays, by both Asian and American scholars, emphasize the intellectual and cultural as well as the political and social aspects of the era, and are grouped under five sections: Establishing Order, Ideas in the Air, International Treaties and National Security, Problems and Solutions in Thought and Action, and The Darker Side; includes photographs from the collection of Anna Brinton, a Quaker missionary to Japan (black cloth with gold lettering, corners slightly bumped; pictorial dust jacket in mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002258
- Title
- Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912
- Author
- Conroy, Hilary; Davis, Sandra T. W. ; Patterson, Wayne (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 083863169X
- ISBN 13
- 9780838631690
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cranbury, NJ, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1984
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