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Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists : The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960 /
Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists, Eiko Maruko Siniawer argues that violence has been embedded in the practice of modern Japanese politics from the very inception of the countr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2011]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Patriots and Gamblers: Violence and the Formation of the Meiji State
- 2. Violent Democracy: Ruffians and the Birth of Parliamentary Politics
- 3. Institutionalized Ruffianism and a Culture of Political Violence
- 4. Fascist Violence: Ideology and Power in Prewar Japan
- 5. Democracy Reconstructed: Violence Specialists in the Postwar Period
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index