Japan before Perry: A Short History
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25th Anniversary edition 246pp. Indexed. Sparsely illustrated in b/w. Pictorial, laminated covers. Cover corners very slightly rounded, else as new. This book examines, in some detail, the complex process by which the scattered and small groups of illiterate people who inhabited Japan's islands thousands of years ago developed into a densely populated, elaborated organised and highly sophisticated society by the 19th century.
