Armies of the 19th Century: Asia: Japan and Korea by: Ian Heath

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CAS-2011-9781901543254-X2

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This volume provides a detailed study of the astonishing reinvention of the Empire of Japan during the 19th century as it emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation to become a military superpower. As late as the 1850s the country remained technologically and militarily stagnant, but within just 40 years in what must rank as the most rapid and comprehensive cultural transformation in world history it had managed not only to absorb and successfully imitate several hundred years of Western technological progress, but had become one of the late Victorian worlds top ten military powers. During the same timeframe it also embraced the concept of colonialism, and with its invasion of China in 1894 and virtual occupation of Korea soon after took its first fateful steps along a road that would lead, with horrible inevitability, to head-on collision with the Allies in World War Two.