Marius B. Jansen
Dutch-born American historian of Japan, longtime Princeton professor and author of influential works on modern Japanese history and U.S.–Japan relations.
Books
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1. The Making Of Modern Japan
A sweeping narrative that traces Japan's transformation from a feudal agrarian society into a centralized, industrialized nation-state, showing how the collapse of the old order, the Meiji reforms, and encounters with Western powers prompted rapid political, economic, and social change. It examines the creation of modern institutions, patterns of industrialization and urbanization, the rise of imperial ambition and wartime trajectories, and the cultural and intellectual debates that shaped Japanese identity and its emergence as a major modern power.
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