Stewart Lone is professor of Asian social history at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• Introduction 1. On the Periphery: Provincial Life and the Military 1890 2. The Profits of War: The Conflict with China 1894-95 and Beyond 3. The Costs of War: The Conflict with Russia 1904-05 4. The Business of Bases in Late Meij 5. ‘Good Soldiers, Good Citizens’: The Local Military in the Public Gaze 6. The Discontents of Taisho: Wars and Peace in the 1910s 7. Under Reconstruction: The Civil-Military Contract in the 1920s Era of Army Rationalization

Stewart Lone is professor of Asian social history at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• Introduction 1. On the Periphery: Provincial Life and the Military 1890 2. The Profits of War: The Conflict with China 1894-95 and Beyond 3. The Costs of War: The Conflict with Russia 1904-05 4. The Business of Bases in Late Meij 5. ‘Good Soldiers, Good Citizens’: The Local Military in the Public Gaze 6. The Discontents of Taisho: Wars and Peace in the 1910s 7. Under Reconstruction: The Civil-Military Contract in the 1920s Era of Army Rationalization

Stewart Lone is professor of Asian social history at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales, Australia.

• Introduction 1. On the Periphery: Provincial Life and the Military 1890 2. The Profits of War: The Conflict with China 1894-95 and Beyond 3. The Costs of War: The Conflict with Russia 1904-05 4. The Business of Bases in Late Meij 5. ‘Good Soldiers, Good Citizens’: The Local Military in the Public Gaze 6. The Discontents of Taisho: Wars and Peace in the 1910s 7. Under Reconstruction: The Civil-Military Contract in the 1920s Era of Army Rationalization