Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by D Colin Jaundrill and D. Colin Jaundrill

In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501703099
• ISBN13: 9781501703096
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher