{"product_id":"samurai-to-soldier-remaking-military-service-in-nineteenth-century-japan-hardback-9781501703096","title":"Samurai to Soldier; Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Hardback) 9781501703096","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSamurai to Soldier\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRemaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eD. Colin Jaundrill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501703096\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 14 halftones, 1 map, 1 table - 14 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaundrill's impressively researched study traces the origin of the modern Japanese military to the 1840s, when one martial arts teacher introduced a more westernized style of musketry and artillery training based on the Dutch example.\u003c\/p\u003e (Foreign Affairs) \u003cp\u003eAn enthralling story with numerous twists and turns.... We already know a fair amount about the role the modern Japanese military played in inspiring innovations in science and public health, as well as in more generally modernizing society at large. Jaundrill provides a much-needed inverse perspective on what such innovations meant for the military by elucidating how the enormous conscription obstacles were overcome.... Historians of military and war in the Japan field have much favored writing about earlier periods—or of the Imperial armed forces of the twentieth century, particularly of the Asia-Pacific War. \u003ci\u003eSamurai to Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes an important missing link between these two strongholds.\u003c\/p\u003e (Cross-Currents) \u003cp\u003e... a genuine contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century Japan—rich in detail, but also focused and succinct.\u003c\/p\u003e (Monumenta Nipponica) \u003cp\u003eD. Colin Jaundrill's\u003ci\u003e Samurai to Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is an important, well-argued book that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of Japan's transition from the Tokugawa to Meiji periods.\u003c\/p\u003e (Harvard Asia Pacific Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamurai to Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJaundrill 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685326975256,"sku":"9781501703096","price":30.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/samurai-to-soldier-remaking-military-service-in-nineteenth-century-japan-hardback-9781501703096","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}