Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 Mesu Andrews rise up or be raised

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Take All Your Chances at Bridge was published in 2009 and has already been reprinted twice

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Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 Mesu Andrews rise up or be raisedIn a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that essentially supplanted the British, French, Dutch, and