Faglærer: Eldrid Mageli
Tekstene er samlet i to kompendier som kan kjøpes i kopiutsalget i underetasjen til GnistAkademika bokhandel.
Pensum:
W.G. Beasley 1990. The Rise of Moderen Japan, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, s. 1-53
W.G. Beasley 2000. The Japanese Experience. A Short History of Japan, London: Phoenix Press, s. 210-229
L.M.Cullen 2003. A History of Japan, 1582-1941. Internal and External Worlds. New York: Cambridge U. Press. s. 1-17 og s. 175-238 (kap. 1,6,7)
Irokawa Daikichi 1985. The Culture of the Meiji Period, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, s. 51-75 og s. 245-311
Carol Gluck 1985. Japan’s Modern Myth’s. Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, Princeton: Priceton U. Press, s. 17-41
Mikiso Hane 2003 (2nd edition). Peasants, Rebels, Women and Outcastes. The Underside of Modern Japan. New York: Rowland and Littlefield Publishers. s. 3-50 (“Modernisation and the Peasants”).
Richard Sims 2000. Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000. London: Hurst & Company. s. 1-39 (kap).
S.N. Eisenstadt 1996. Japanese Civilization, A Comparative View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. s. 1-49 (kap 1,2).
Tilsammen 317 sider
Kilder:
«The records of the legitimate succession of the divine sovereigns: Japanese uniqueness.» World Civilization I, s. 160-161
«The way of the samurai.» World Civilization II, s. 55-56 (rediger)