Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890

by Brian Platt

Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and most radical of the Meiji reforms was a plan for a centralized, compulsory educational system modeled after those in Europe and America. Meiji leaders hoped that schools would curb mounting social disorder and mobilize the Japanese people against the threat of Western imperialism. The sweeping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013964
• ISBN13: 9780674013964
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"