Neil L Waters

Biographic Data

ID3960092
NAMENeil L Waters
GIVEN NAMESNeil L
FAMILY NAMEWaters
SIGNATUREWATERS N L
AFFILIATIONSMiddlebury College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Hiraku Shimoda. Lost and Found

    Neil L WatersARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    Journal Article Hiraku Shimoda. Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan. Get access Hiraku Shimoda. Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 364.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 159. $39.95. Neil L. Waters Neil L. Waters Emeritus Middlebury College [email protected] Search for other wor…

  • Burning and Building

    Neil L WatersARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2006

    Reviewed by: Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 Neil L. Waters (bio) Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890. By Brian Platt. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2004. xi, 325 pages. $45.00. The wounded remnants of historiographies past haunt these pages. R. P. Dore's ideas of Tokugawa education as preparation for modernization take a thorough drubbing. The tendenc…

  • A Time of Crisis

    Neil L Waters, Kerry SmithARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • The Weak Body of a Useless Woman

    Neil L Waters, Anne WalthallARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000

  • Proliferating Talent

    Neil L Waters, Motoyama Yukihiko et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998Cited by: 1

  • The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa Prefecture

    Neil L Waters, James C BaxterARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1996

    Credit for the swift unification of Japan following the 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate is usually given to the national leaders who instigated the coup and formed the new Meiji government. But is brilliant leadership at the top sufficient to explain how regional separatist tendencies and loyalties to the old lords were overcome in the formation of a nationally unified state? On the contrary, argues James C. Baxter. Though plans were dra…

  • The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

    Neil L Waters, Karen WigenARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1995

  • Patriots and Redeemers in Japan

    Neil L Waters, George Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • The Second Transition

    Open AccessNeil L WatersARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1990References: 2

    It is no easy matter for a government seeking to foster rapid economic and social changes to win acceptance of its programs. Too much control by the center assures local resistance; too much dispersal of authority empowers it. The dilemma is a familiar one today, but it is not, of course, a new one. The leaders of Meiji (1868-1912) Japan found it to be the knottiest problem in their efforts to construct a modern state. They needed to exert suffic…

  • After the Restoration

    Neil L Waters, Michio UmegakiARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1989

  • Japan's Local Pragmatists

    D Eleanor Westney, Neil L WatersARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1985

  • Japan's Local Pragmatists

    William B Hauser, Neil L WatersARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1985

    Japanese local history is used as an ingredient in historiographical theories designed to prove that the rapid pace of change in Japan led either to phenomenal success or to dismal failure. Against the backdrop of a comprehensive overview of Japanese historiography, Neil Waters examines in detail the local politics of the Kawasaki region during the late nineteenth century. Historians have hitherto focused primarily upon those regions that experie…

  • Japan's Local Pragmatists

    Thomas M Huber, Neil L WatersARTICLEThe American Historical Review1984

  • Local Leadership in the Kawasaki Region from Bakumatsu to Meiji

    Neil L WatersARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1981