Japan 高校1年 History: General

1. Doorway to history

History and us · Nature of history and sources

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2. Modernisation and us

Questions about modernisation · Linked world and the opening of Japan · Nation states and the Meiji Restoration · Modernisation and present-day issues

• The Age of Industrialisation – Before factories, merchants gave raw material to peasant families who spun and wove at home (proto-industrialisation). From the 1760s Britain built cotton mills, machines like the spinning jenny and James Watt's improved steam engine. Change was slow: hand labour stayed cheap and common. In India, weavers once supplied world markets; the East India Company controlled them through gomasthas, and Manchester cloth later flooded India. From 1854 Indian mills grew in Bombay and elsewhere, and small workshops also grew. Makers sold goods through labels, calendars and adverts, and swadeshi adverts appealed to national pride.

3. International order and mass society

Questions about change and mass society · World War I and mass society · Economic crisis and World War II · Present-day issues

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4. Globalisation and us

Questions about globalisation · Cold War and world economy · Changing world order and Japan · Present-day issues and outlook

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