Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Tar? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312232894)

Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in the Meiji era (1868-1912). It focuses on the life of General Katsura Taro, one of the architects of the modern military, a leading figure in Japanese colonialism, and prime minister through the 1900s. Challenging the received wisdom about Japanese militarism and imperialism, it exposes the army's ambivalence about empire but also its positive role in political change.

Author: S. Lone
ISBN-10: 0312232896
ISBN-13: 9780312232894
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 247
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 36