D Colin Jaundrill: 1 book
Samurai to Soldier
Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
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 warriors as Japan’s principal arms-bearers. The most common version of...
