#  Gordon, Andrew - A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present  

 





March 26, 2013

 

 

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**Andrew Gordon.** Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition (March 26, 2013)  
[Publisher's Link](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-modern-history-of-japan-9780199930159?cc=us&lang=en&) *A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present*, Third Edition, paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. It takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation's first experiments with mass democracy after World War I.

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  **[Andrew Gordon](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/andrew-gordon)** **Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Director, Reishauer Institute of Japanese Studies**  
 Professor Gordon teaches courses on modern Japanese history with a primary research interest in labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan. His most recent book, *Fabricating Consumers*, examines the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan, with a particular focus on the sewing machine. He is currently working with colleagues in Japan and the United States to create a digital archive of Japan’s March 2011 disasters. 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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