Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute - Japan Author Lecture Series "Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan" D. Colin Jaundrill, Associate Professor of History, Providence College Moderated by Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 No … [Read more...]
Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES D. Colin Jaundrill (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. 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 … [Read more...]
