First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the

"Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every

This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.