HIST 2375

Students will critically examine the history of Japan during the Tokugawa era (1600 to 1868 CE). They will analyze the creation and structure of the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as Japan's interactions with the West and China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Students will analyze intellectual, cultural, and economic developments during the long Tokugawa peace, including the evolution and maturation of the samurai class; Genroku culture and the Floating World; and, the Japanese response to Western imperialism in the mid-nineteenth century.