W G Beasley: 2 books

Collected Writings of W. G. Beasley

The Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars of Japan Volume 5

by W. G. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies.

Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945

by W. G. Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1987

This is a study of the origins and nature of Japanese imperialism from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 through to 1945. Japan is the only Asian country in modern times to have built both a successful industrial economy and an empire, and it is Professor Beasley's contention that these two phenomena...