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The Shortest History Of Japan

by Lesley Downer
language: english
Publisher: OLD STREET PUBLISHING, June of 2025 ‧
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‘A terrific overview of Japan’s long and rich history… covers an astonishing amount of ground’ PETER FRANKOPAN

Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has embraced foreign institutions from baseball to barber shops. Yet for centuries under the rule of the shoguns, the islands were largely sealed off from the outside world. In charting a course between openness and insularity, Japan has found a way to become ultra-modern while breathing new life into its own unique traditions.

In The Shortest History of Japan, Lesley Downer brings an expert storyteller’s eye to the sweep of Japanese history. Here are the emperors and warlords, the samurai and women warriors, the merchants and geisha who shaped this extraordinary modern society. From the hunter-gatherers who fashioned the world’s first pots to the novel-writing ladies of the eleventh-century Heian court, from the devastation of Hiroshima to today’s economic and cultural powerhouse, this is an indispensable, riveting history of the land of the rising sun.

The Shortest History Of Japan

by Lesley Downer

Property Description
ISBN: 9781913083922
Publisher: OLD STREET PUBLISHING
Release Date: June of 2025
Language: English
Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 19 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 276
Format: Book
Collection: Shortest Histories
Categories: Books in English > History > History of Asia
EAN: 9781913083922

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lesley Downer

LLesley Downer é autora, historiadora e apaixonada pelo Japão, onde viveu durante quase quinze anos. Escreveu vários livros de ficção e não-ficção sobre o país e a sua cultura.
O seu primeiro livro, On the Narrow Road to the Deep North, documenta a sua viagem até às Montanhas Sagradas do Japão e foi a inspiração para um filme produzido pela Emissora Nacional Japonesa. The Brothers, sobre a influente família Tsutsumi, foi nomeado um dos livros do ano de 1995 pelo New York Times.
Escreveu quatro romances, cujas narrativas decorrem no Japão em meados do século XIX, o período mais conturbado da história do país.
Lesley dá palestras na Japan Society, na Royal Geographic Society e no British Museum, entre outros. Lecionou durante quatro anos no programa de mestrado em Escrita Criativa (não-ficção) na City University, em Londres.

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