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Samurai to soldier : remaking military service in nineteenth-century Japan /

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 o...

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Main Author: Jaundrill, D. Colin, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Draft > Japan > History > 19th century.
Samurai > History > 19th century.
Japan > History, Military > 19th century.
Japan > Armed Forces > Recruiting, enlistment, etc. > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781501706646
1501706640
9781501706097
1501706098
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The rise of "western" musketry, 1841-1860
  • Rising tensions and renewed reform, 1860-1866
  • The drives to build a federal army, 1866-1872
  • Instituting universal military service, 1873-1876
  • Dress rehearsal : the Satsuma rebellion, 1877
  • Organizational reform and the creation of the serviceman, 1878-1894.

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