This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on Japanese early state formation, brought together so

"At its inception in 1868, the modern Japanese state pursued policies and created institutions that lacked a coherent conception of religion. Yet the architects

The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at arou

"Soon after overthrowing the Tokugawa government in 1868, the new Meiji leaders devised ambitious plans to build a modern nation-state. Among the earliest and m

A major contribution to the field of comparative state formation and the scholarship on long-term political development of Latin America "Ambitious and rich. .