Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Professor Gordon teaches courses on modern Japanese history with a primary research interest in labor, class and the social and political history of modern Japan. He has most recently published A Modern History of Japan. He is currently working on the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan, with a particular focus on the sewing machine.
PUBLICATIONS
Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei [Matsuzaka’s Unknown Major League Revolution] Asahi shinsho (2007)
The Modern History of Japan (2002) Second edition forthcoming 2008
The Wages of Affluence (1999)
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (1991)
The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 (1985)
GENERAL EXAMINATION FIELDS
Social and political history of modern Japan (joint with Department of History).
FALL COURSES
On leave in the fall.
SPRING COURSES
History 2651. Japanese History: Seminar
Societies of the World 13. Japan in Asia and the World
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