Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation

This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways.

On a scale probably never before seen in the study of the Restoration outside Japan, the short chapters in this volume re...