[PDF.32gd] The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

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 | #635279 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1997-03-25 |  1997-01-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.13 x6.38l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.| A modern classic, essential to understanding Japan|By W. D ONEIL|Professor Ikegami examines the evolution of the samurai as a social institution from its beginnings nearly 1,000 years ago up to the formal dissolution of the samurai in the late 19th century, as well as the continuing influence of samurai society on modern Japan. She shows that the concept of honor was central| |This book has already been widely praised by prominent American political scientists and historians for answering how the Japanese achieved modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. At once a remarkable historical study of the samurai w

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-...

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