01857cam a2200265Ii 4500020001800000020001500018040000800033041000800041082002700049100002300076245005700099250002600156300005200182490004300234500012100277520091300398650002201311650002201333650002201355650002501377700001801402942000701420999001701427952014701444  a9784924971325  a4924971324  cLWU1 hjpn04a320 INT 2012 A010 Or. 1 aWatanabe, Hiroshi,12aA history of Japanese political thought, 1600-1901 /  aFirst English edition  axiv, 543 pages :billustrations, maps  ;c24 cm1 aLTCB international library selection ;  aOriginally published in Japanese as: Nihon seiji shis¿‍shi : 17-20 seiki. Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press, 2010  aIn 1853 a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted two and a half centuries, was at an end. What lay behind the sudden collapse of samurai rule? Watanabe Hiroshi traces the quiet changes in political thought that culminated in the dramatic events of the Meiji Revolution in 1868. Confucian ideals such as a universal Way and benevolent government under a virtuous ruler possessing the mandate of heaven were taught by successive Japanese Confucians and came to permeate the country, posing an implicit threat to military rule. Over time the development of a national consciousness, the rising prestige of the imperial court in Kyoto, and increased knowledge of the Western world created the conditions for a national debate over opening up to the West and for radical political change 0aPolitical science 0aPolitical science 0aPolitical science 0aPolitical scientists1 aNoble, David,  cEK  c13739d13739  0010406320_000000000000000_INT_2012_A010_OR70965083aLBAbLBAcA010d2017-08-30o320 INT 2012 A010 Or.pa19652r2017-08-30w2017-08-30yEK