Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan / / William Wright Kelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Kelly, William Wright,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 412
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests, their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- List Of Maps -- Preface -- 1. Class, Community, and Party in 19th-Century Collective Protest -- 2. Shōnai and Sakai Domain -- 3. Honorable Subjects ... : The Anti-Transfer Protests of 1840-41 -- 4. ... And Unruly Mobs: The Oyama Disturbances of 1844 -- 5. Restoration in Shanai -- 6. Initiative and Inertia: The Second Sakata Prefecture -- 7. Cash Taxes, Suppressed Reforms, and Falsified Expenditures -- 8. From the Headmen's Compounds to the Council of State -- 9. The Government Responds: The Numa Hearings and the Kojima Court -- 10. Aftermath -- 11. Concluding Reflections -- Appendix: Early Spring Rice Prices and Domain Mean Tax Levels, 1697-1862 -- Character List -- References -- Index -- Backmatter