Designed for the East Asian history course, these texts feature the latest scholarship on the region and offer a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history.

"A comprehensive history of East Asia, including extensive coverage of the region's cultural, political, economic, and social history.

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In telling Taseko's story, Anne Walthall gives us not just the first full biography in English of a peasant woman of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), but also fresh perspectives on the practices and intellectual concerns of rural ...

As these essays suggest, such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in networks.

Designed for the East Asian history course, this text features the latest scholarship on the region and offers a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history.

Written by top scholars in the field, Japan: A Cultural, Social, and Political History offers strong coverage of gender and cultural history as well as a special emphasis on material culture--back cover.

In this volume, Anne Walthall and M. William Steele examine how the tumultuous events happening inside Japan in the early nineteenth century contributed to this resiliency against western supremacy.

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