Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan / / Daniel V. Botsman.

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton : : Princeton University Press,, [2005]
2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (338 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Signs of order : punishment and power in the shogun's capital
  • Bloody benevolence : punishment, ideology, and outcasts
  • The power of status : Kodenmacho jailhouse and the structures of Tokugawa society
  • Discourse, dynamism, and disorder : the historical significance of the Edo stockade for laborers
  • Punishment and the politics of civilization in Bakumatsu Japan
  • Restoration and reform : the birth of the prison in Japan
  • Punishment and prisons in the era of enlightenment
  • Punishment, empire, and history in the making of modern Japan.