John Sagers

Description

Survey of Japanese history from 1600 to 2000. Topics include samurai ideas and declining fortunes, modern industrial development and its social costs, Second World War in Asia and its lingering  legacy, and Japan's postwar rise to affluence, and contemporary culture.

Textbooks

Bernstein, Gail. Recreating Japanese women, 1600-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Cook, Haruko. Japan at war : an oral history. New York: New Press ;Distributed by Norton, 1993.

Fukuzawa, Yukichi. The autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

McClain, James. Japan, a modern history. 1st ed. New York N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002.

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Major Assignments

Class Participation

Short take-home essay

Midterm assignment

5-7 page research paper

Final assignment