Andrew Gordon is a scholar of modern

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. He is a Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at

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and former chair of the Department of

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there from 2004 to 2007. He was Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies from 1998 through 2004. Andrew Gordon completed his PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 1981. Following the completion of his graduate studies he has taught history at both

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and at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He is one of the leading experts on Japanese labor history but has lately shifted to other fields. Gordon's 2003 ''A Modern History of Japan'' is now one of the standard textbooks on the topic and has been translated into Japanese. A revised edition of the work was released in 2009. Gordon has more recently been engaged in research on the history of the sewing machine and the making of the modern consumer in 20th century Japan.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Andrew Gordon,

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encompasses roughly 30 works in 90+ publications in five languages and 6,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities

Gordon, Andrew 1952-
/ref> *''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Third Edition).'' (2014) *''Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan.'' (2011) *''Nihonjin ga shiranai Matsuzaka mejaa kakumei'' (Matsuzaka's Unknown Major League Revolution) Asahi shinsho (2007) *''A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present.'' (2003) *''The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan.'' (1998) *''Postwar Japan as History'' (ed). (1993) . *''Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan.'' (1992) *''The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853–1955.'' (1985) .

External links

Andrew Gordon's Website

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Historians of Japan Harvard University faculty Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Duke University faculty American Japanologists 21st-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub