The Meiji Era (1868-1912) |
Richard Hooker (Washington State U.) The Meiji Restoration (overview essay, within the World Civilizations: Modern Japan site) |
Jonathan Dresner (U. Hawai'i at Hilo) How True to History is Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai? (2004) (review and essay) |
Richard J. Smith (Rice U.) Meiji Japan and Late Qing China: Some Comparisons (essay, wtih tables, with sections on the Meiji Charter Oath [1868] and the Complete record of Barbarian Affairs [1880] and on statistical comparisons between Japan and China) |
Thayer Watkins (San José State U.) Meiji Restoration/Revolution (essay, providing overview with a socio-economic focus) |
Ronald P. Loftus (Willamette U.) The Meiji Restoration: Links (annotated links) |
The Meiji Restoration and Modernization (module from the Contemporary Japan: A Teaching Workbook, with historical background and study questions) (East Asian Curriculum Project, Columbia U.) |
Sidney DeVere Brown Nagasaki in the Meiji Restoration: Choshu Loyalists and British Arms Merchants (overview, with reference to the diary of Kido Takayoshi) |
Bill Gordon (Wesleyan U.) "Tokugawa Period's Influence on Meiji Restoration" (essay) (2000) |
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