Japan 1500-1850: Early Modern Japan

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Class Hours: 3 Lab/Discussion: 0 Credits: 3 Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, 3cr of college history Description: Examines the cultural and social history of Early Modern Japan, including both Sengoku and the Tokugawa. This includes elite attempts at creating a stratified social order and also how less powerful groups altered or challenged this vision. Discusses the role of commercialization and commercial culture and Japan as an Early Modern society. (Titled Geisha and Samurai: The Cultural and Social History of Early Modern Japan before 2016-17.)