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 bothDuke University and atHarvard. He is one of the leading experts on Japanese labor history but has lately shifted to other fields. Gordon's 2003A 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.
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Andrew Gordon,OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30 works in 90+ publications in five languages and 6,000+ library holdings.[3]
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Fourth Edition). (2019)
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)
