In this episode, Dr. Conlan gives us a view of the Meiji Restoration from the perspective of late-medieval Japan. We discuss how viewing the Restoration in the longue durée reveals transformations and developments, especially in military technology, that are obscured when the story is started in 1868 (Transcript here).
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