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Mark Ravina is Professor of History at Emory University, and is a specialist in political economy in [[Edo period]] Japan, issues related to state-building, and digital humanities, among other subjects.
He earned his PhD at Stanford University in 1991. His first book, ''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', discusses state/national identity, autonomy, and political economy in the Edo period [[han|domains]] of [[Tokushima han|Tokushima]], [[Hirosaki han|Hirosaki]], and [[Yonezawa han|Yonezawa]]. Ravina's second book, ''The Last Samurai'', is a biography of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]]; in recent years, he has begun focusing on topics relating to state-building in the [[Meiji period]].
He has also appeared on CNN and the History Channel as an expert on Saigô Takamori, and other related subjects.
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==Publications==
*"The Apocryphal Suicide of Saigō Takamori: Samurai, Seppuku and the Politics of Legend," ''Journal of Asian Studies'' 69:3 (2010), 691–721.
*"Kindaika, kindaisei to meikunzō no saikentō: Uesugi Yōzan o chūshin ni," ''Rekishi hyōron'' 717:1 (2010), 37-50.
*"Confucian banking: the community granary (shasō) in rhetoric and practice," in Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits (eds.), ''Economic thought in early modern Japan'', Brill (2010), 179-204.
*“Japanese State Making in Global Context,” in Richard Boyd and Tak Wing Ngo (eds.), ''State Making in Asia'', Routledge (2006), 31-46.
*“State-Making in Global Context: Japan in a World of Nation-States,” in Joshua Fogel (ed.), ''The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State'', University of Pennsylvania Press (2005), 87-104.
*''Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan'', Stanford University Press, 1999.
*“State-Building and Political Economy in Early-Modern Japan,” ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' 54:4 (1995), 997–1022.
==External Links==
*[http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/ravina.html Faculty page at Emory University]
*[http://history.emory.edu/RAVINA/ Personal homepage at Emory University]
*[http://clioviz.wordpress.com/ Digital Humanities blog]
[[Category:Historians]]