Cambridge History of Japan,volume 4,Early Modern Japan
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loginSince the beginning of this century the Cambridge histories have set apattern in the English-reading world for multivolume series contain-ing chapters written by specialists under the guidance of volume edi-tors. Plans for a Cambridge history of Japan were begun in the 1970sand completed in 1978. The task was not to be easy. The details ofJapanese history are not matters of common knowledge among West-ern historians. The cultural mode of Japan differs greatly from that ofthe West, and above all there are the daunting problems of terminol-ogy and language. In compensation, however, foreign scholars havebeen assisted by the remarkable achievements of the Japanese scholarsduring the last century in recasting their history in modern conceptualand methodological terms.
