Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
D. Colin Jaundrill
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Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16, 14 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; HBW; JWA; JWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan's efforts to save itself from the imperial ambitions of the West and set the country on the path to great power status. Jaundrill argues, to the contrary, that the conscript army of the Meiji period was the culmination-and not the beginning-of ... Read more
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan's efforts to save itself from the imperial ambitions of the West and set the country on the path to great power status. Jaundrill argues, to the contrary, that the conscript army of the Meiji period was the culmination-and not the beginning-of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501703096
SKU
V9781501703096
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About D. Colin Jaundrill
D. Colin Jaundrill is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.
Reviews for Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
... a genuine contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century Japan-rich in detail, but also focused and succinct.
Monumenta Nipponica
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill presents a thoughtful, well-balanced analysis of the transformation of Japan's premodern warriors into the arms and legs of a modern, Western military system during the decades surrounding the Meiji Restoration. ... Read more
Monumenta Nipponica
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill presents a thoughtful, well-balanced analysis of the transformation of Japan's premodern warriors into the arms and legs of a modern, Western military system during the decades surrounding the Meiji Restoration. ... Read more