books.google.com - This volume in The Cambridge History of Japan provides the most comprehensive account available in any Western language of Japan's transformation from a feudal society to a modern nation state. Volume 5 traces the roots and the course of political, social, and institutional change that took place in...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cambridge_History_of_Japan.html?id=7OFYajIf9QgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge History of Japan
