This balanced account of Japanese history focuses on developments in art, religion, literature, and thought as well as economic, political, and social history. The author, who has studied and conducted research at The Kyoto University Institute for Humanistic Studies since 1967, offers a clear, consistent, and highly readable text accessible to students with no previous knowledge of Japan.

A Brief History of Japanese Civilization

History

Schirokauer, Conrad

Asia

Wadsworth Publishing

This affordable text offers a traditional political history approach in one convenient volume. A classic survey of Western civilization, this text has remained popular for its balanced coverage and its consistent efforts to explain why history exhibits the patterns it has.

The Mainstream of Civilization

Chodorow, Stanley

Strayer, Joseph R.

Knox, MacGregor

Gatzke, Hans W.

World

This popular Harcourt Press text provides a classic survey of Western Civilisation with a balanced, proven coverage and consistent efforts to explain why history has occurred in the patterns that it has.

The Mainstream of Civilization to 1500

Gatzke, Hans Wilhelm

Harcourt College Pub.

Paperback: 650 pagesPublisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers; 6 edition (January 1994)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0155011995ISBN-13: 978-0155011991Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 1 inches

The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1500

Americas

This popular Harcourt Press text provides a classic survey of Western Civilisation with a balanced, proven coverage and consistent efforts to explain why history has occured in the patterns that it has.

The Mainstream of Civilization to 1715

This concise book emphasizes Chinese cultural history while also covering political and economic history. It is introductory in both style and content, and the organization is kept as simple as possible. Brief coverage of each major Chinese dynasty or other discrete period is treated in a separate chapter. Coverage includes recent developments in China, up to and including the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Timelines, charts, or key dates appear at the beginning of chapters. Chinese names are printed in Pinyin with Wade-Giles in parentheses.

A Brief History of Chinese Civilization

A brief introductory text that emphasizes cultural history while also covering political and economic history. Chapters are brief and each major Chinese dynasty, Japanese Shogunate, or other discrete period is treated in a separate chapter. Encounters with the West (beginning in the 16th century) are extensively covered.

A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations

Consideration of all facets of human activity, general mapping out of the terrain. The enduring value of their cultural achievements. 25 chapters: Chinese Antiquity, Age of Philosophers, First Empire, China During the Period of Disunity, Sui and Tang, Early Japan, Heian Japan, Gentry and Samurai, Mongol Empire and Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Japan in the Kamakura Period, Ashikaga Shogunate, East Asia and Modern Europe Encounters, China under the Manchus, Tokugawa Japan, Intrusion of the West, End of the Old Order and Struggle for the New China, Limits of Success Japan, Militarist Japan Second WW. Afterback, and more. Old black and white photos and maps thru-out. Notes on names and Romanization.

A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Focusing on the civilizations--the art and religion as well as the political and social--this compelling history explores the four countries of modern East Asia: China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. From their traditions and commonalties in 1600, through trends toward industrialization and state building, to each country?s response to modernization in a global environment, authors Conrad Schirokauer and Donald N. Clark explore the complexity, severally and together, of countries that never fail to fascinate.

Modern East Asia: A Brief History (with InfoTrac®)

CLARK

The Mainstream of Civilization Since 1660

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