Samurai to Soldier : : Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan / / D. Colin Jaundrill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Jaundrill, D. Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 14 halftones, 1 map, 1 table
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Rise of “Western” Musketry, 1841–1860 --; 2. Rising Tensions and Renewed Reform, 1860–1866 --; 3. The Drives to Build a Federal Army, 1866–1872 --; 4. Instituting Universal Military Service, 1873–1876 --; 5. Dress Rehearsal: The Satsuma Rebellion, 1877 --; 6. Organizational Reform and the Creation of the Serviceman, 1878–1894 --; Conclusion --; Glossary --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501706097; 9783110649826; 9783110667493; 9783110485103; 9783110485189
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501706097
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: D. Colin Jaundrill.

In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan’s principal arms-bearers. The most common version of this story suggests that the Meiji institution of compulsory military service was the foundation of Japan’s efforts to save itself from the imperial ambitions of the West and set the country on the path to great power status. Jaundrill argues, to the contrary, that the conscript army of the Meiji period was the culmination—and not the beginning—of a long process of experimentation with military organization and technology. Jaundrill traces the radical changes to Japanese military institutions, as well as the on-field consequences of military reforms in his accounts of the Boshin War (1868–1869) and the Satsuma Rebellions of 1877. He shows how pre-1868 developments laid the foundations for the army that would secure Japan’s Asian empire.