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Early Modern Japan. By Conrad Totman. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993. 593 pp. $45.00.
Early Modern Japan covers three centuries from Oda Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto in 1568 to the seizure of Kyoto by loyalist forces in 1868, which sealed the fate of the moribund Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867). Totman characterizes this period as "a century and a half...





