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

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 Jap...

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