[HIST 218] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (45 pages long!)
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Meiji-statecraft entailed: formation of japan as a modern nation-state. Idea of the meiji restoration was based on the creation of modern japan. Japan existed in some notional way before the meiji restoration, but a unified state with a concept of nationality did not exist before this before: creates a concept between the nation (cultural practices, languages) and the state. Led by imperial loyalists from satsuma and choshu: reformers were based in southern japan; becomes a source of mobilization to the restoration as well as resistance to the meiji restoration. Intense training of the emperor by these reformers (now located in the old centre of tokugawa power in edo) Emperor is being schooled in his new role in the meiji governance, based on the constitutional monarchies of europe. Role is similar to the relation to the state of european royal families. Meiji reformers gain legitimacy by restoring the emperor to the centre of power, gain support of the masses.
