Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan / / Daniel V. Botsman.
The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Signs of Order: Punishment and Power in the Shogun's Capital
- CHAPTER 2. Bloody Benevolence: Punishment, Ideology, and Outcasts
- CHAPTER 3. The Power of Status: Kodenmachō Jailhouse and the Structures of Tokugawa Society
- CHAPTER 4. Discourse, Dynamism, and Disorder: The Historical Significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers
- CHAPTER 5. Punishment and the Politics of Civilization in Bakumatsu Japan
- CHAPTER 6. Restoration and Reform: The Birth of the Prison in Japan
- CHAPTER 7. Punishment and Prisons in the Era of Enlightenment
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index