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Historical Dictionary of Tokyo
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
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Description for Historical Dictionary of Tokyo
Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Cities, States, and Regions. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GBC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 720.
Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite modestly as a small castle town of Edo in 1457, then the center of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603-1868, the rapidly modernizing and Westernizing capital of the nation during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), and the capital of a prosperous nation and growing empire thereafter. Tokyo was utterly devastated during World War II, but this ... Read more
Tokyo is Japan's largest city and its capital. It is also one of the largest cities in the world and a major center of global economic influence. The origins of human settlement in what is today Tokyo are lost in prehistory. The city started out quite modestly as a small castle town of Edo in 1457, then the center of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1603-1868, the rapidly modernizing and Westernizing capital of the nation during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), and the capital of a prosperous nation and growing empire thereafter. Tokyo was utterly devastated during World War II, but this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Series
Historical Dictionaries of Cities, States, and Regions
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810872387
SKU
V9780810872387
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About Roman Adrian Cybriwsky
Roman Adrian Cybriwsky is professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine. He has published several books on Japan and Tokyo, including the first edition of Historical Dictionary of Tokyo (Scarecrow Press, 1996).
Reviews for Historical Dictionary of Tokyo
This well-researched volume belongs to Scarecrow Press’s Historical Dictionaries of Cities, States, and Regions series. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on people, places, events, and important historical terms often seen in the history of Tokyo....The dictionary section is the main part of the work but the author has also provided an in-depth ... Read more