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Nov 23, 2024
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Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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HIS 204 - Tumultuous Centuries: Modern Japan (4 Cr.) (LER DIV)(WEC)(GCR RPP)(GCR Humanities and Interdisciplinary Studies area)
This course explores Japan’s dramatic, and repeated, transformations during the 19th and 20th centuries. It will examine a range of topics, including samurai culture and the nature of the Tokugawa shogunate; the domestic and foreign sources of the collapse of that order; the revolutionary nature of the Meiji Restoration; Japan’s emergence as an industrial power and imperialist state; pan-Asianism and Japan’s drive for pre-eminence in Asia; the Pacific War and its aftermath; Japan’s post-war reconstruction and economic miracle; the transformation of gender roles; Japan’s social movements, and the dilemmas that Japan has faced as a militarily-constrained economic powerhouse. Recommended but not required: 12 college credits or permission of the instructor. Variable semesters. Dawley.
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