The Heritage of Japanese Civilization Tapa blanda - 2010 - 2nd Edición

Albert M. Craig is the Harvard-Yenching Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He is the author of "Choshu in the Meiji Restoration" (1961), "The Heritage of Japanese Civilization" (2011), and, with others, of "East Asia"," Tradition and Transformation "(1989). He is the editor of "Japan"," A Comparative View" (1973) and co-editor of "Personality in Japanese History" (1970), "Civilization and Enlightnment: the Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi "(2009). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto and Tokyo universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government.