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‘Japan’ in an English Mirror

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Alan Macfarlane
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University of Cambridge

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‘The rise of Japan is surely one of the great epics of modern world history’. Yet it is not easy to obtain an overview of the development of Japanese civilization. Since the 1960s there has been an explosion of research which has overturned many of the older orthodoxies. The Cambridge History of Japan provides us with an unique chance to take stock. Here I will consider the four volumes covering the period from the twelfth to the later twentieth century.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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