Burning and Building : : Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 /

Burning and Building : : Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 / / Brian Platt.

"Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders formulated ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system, modeled after those in Europe and Amer...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 237
VerfasserIn:
Platt, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2004.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 237.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Commoner Schooling in Tokugawa-Era Shinano
  • Village Elites and the Changing Meaning of "School" in the Late Tokugawa Period
  • Post-Restoration Innovation and the Fundamental Code, 1868-1872
  • National Policy and Local Mobilization, 1872-1876
  • Local Resistance to the Fundamental Code
  • Negotiating "School" in Mid-Meiji Japan, 1876-1890
  • The Local in the Nation-State
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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