JAP100 History 3.1 Late Meiji Japan
The first half of this lecture looks at the political, social, and economic changes in Meiji Japan, focusing on the period from 1877 to 1895. Among other things, the second decade of Meiji witnessed t...
19 Aug 20211h 39min
JAP100 History 2.1: Edo Period Japan
In this episode, we will complete our look at the premodern period by examining the long peace and relative prosperity under the Tokugawa shoguns. This sets us up to examine Japan’s “opening” to the W...
18 Aug 20211h 13min
JAP100 History 2.2: Meiji Japan
In part 2 of our lectures on Meiji, we will begin to examine Japan’s “opening” to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, and the proactive ways that Japan engaged with this new challenge.
18 Aug 202157min
