Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan / / John Whitney Hall, Marius B. Jansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Hall, John Whitney,; Jansen, Marius B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Befu, Harumi,; Craig, Albert,; Crawcour, E. S.,; Dore, R. P.,; Hall, John Whitney,; Henderson, Dan Fenno,; Jansen, Marius B.,; Sakai, Robert,; Shively, Donald H.,; Smith, Thomas C.,; Strayer, Joseph R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1836
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization.Originally published in 1968.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 -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD AND JAPANESE FEUDALISM -- CHAPTER TWO. FEUDALISM IN JAPAN-A REASSESSMENT -- PART TWO. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DAIMYO RULE -- CHAPTER THREE. THE NEW LOOK OF TOKUGAWA HISTORY -- CHAPTER FOUR. FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN JAPANESE DAIMYO -- CHAPTER FIVE. THE IKEDA HOUSE AND ITS RETAINERS IN BIZEN -- CHAPTER SIX. TOSA IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE 100 ARTICLE CODE OF CHŌSOKABE MOTOCHIKA -- CHAPTER SEVEN. TOSA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF YAMAUCHI RULE -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER IN SATSUMA-HAN -- PART THREE. DAIMYO RULE IN CASTLE TOWN AND VILLAGE -- CHAPTER NINE. MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF LOCAL HISTORY IN JAPAN: PRE-MEIJI DAIMYO RECORDS -- CHAPTER TEN. THE CASTLE TOWN AND JAPAN'S MODERN URBANIZATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. CHANGES IN JAPANESE COMMERCE IN THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD -- CHAPTER TWELVE. THE EVOLUTION OF TOKUGAWA LAW -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. BAKUFU VERSUS KABUKI -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. THE JAPANESE VILLAGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. THE LAND TAX IN THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. VILLAGE AUTONOMY AND ARTICULATION WITH THE STATE -- PART FOUR. LATE TOKUGAWA -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. TOKUGAWA AND MODERN JAPAN -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. TOSA DURING THE LAST CENTURY OF TOKUGAWA RULE -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. TALENT AND THE SOCIAL ORDER IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN -- CHAPTER TWENTY. THE RESTORATION MOVEMENT IN CHŌSHŪ -- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. FROM TOKUGAWA TO MEIJI IN JAPANESE LOCAL ADMINISTRATION -- INDEX