HISTORY 707 A & B
Social Life in Japan 1600 -1912
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for HISTORY 707.
Description
Explores the history and historiography of birth, death and social life in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan with particular attention to the patterns and turning points of life. Students will read from a variety of historical genres including biography, demography, historical anthropology, cultural and social history and primary sources in translation. Considers themes in recent history writing with attention to scholarship written both inside and outside Japan.
To complete this course students must enrol in HISTORY 707 A and B, or HISTORY 707.
Availability 2017
Semester 1 and 2 (full year)
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Ellen Nakamura
Points
HISTORY 707A: 15 points
HISTORY 707B: 15 points