First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part I The Civilizational Background; Chapter 1 Japan in Context: The West, the East and the Far East; Chapter 2 Cultural Patterns and Civilizational Complexes; Chapter 3 The Constitution of the Japanese Tradition; Part II Court, Domain and State; Chapter 4 Japan and Europe; Chapter 5 Decomposition and Reconstruction; Part III The Tokugawa Synthesis; Chapter 6 Pseudo-archaism and Proto-modernity; Chapter 7 Crisis, Containment and Transformation; Part IV Japanese Patterns of Modernity; Chapter 8 Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 9 Modernization and Westernization; Chapter 10 The Japanese Reinvention of Capitalism;