Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
(Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series)
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In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan's principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan's efforts to save...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1501703099
ISBN13:9781501703096
Release Date:July 2016
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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