Japan before Perry: A Short History

Author(s): Totman, Conrad

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	University of California Press
Publication Year:	2008
Publication Place:	USA
ISBN:	9780520254077
Book ID:	000340
Catalogue(s):	History - General

25th Anniversary edition 246pp. Indexed. Sparsely illustrated in b/w. Pictorial, laminated covers. Cover corners very slightly rounded, else as new. This book examines, in some detail, the complex process by which the scattered and small groups of illiterate people who inhabited Japan's islands thousands of years ago developed into a densely populated, elaborated organised and highly sophisticated society by the 19th century.

Keywords:

japan history