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Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Botsman, Dani (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Signs of order : punishment and power in the shogun's capital
  • Bloody benevolence : punishment, ideology, and outcasts
  • The power of status : Kodenmachō jailhouse and the structures of Tokugawa society
  • Discourse, dynamism, and disorder : the historical significance of the Edo stockade for laborers
  • Punishment and the politics of civilization in Bakumatsu Japan
  • Restoration and reform : the birth of the prison in Japan
  • Punishment and prisons in the era of enlightenment
  • Punishment, empire, and history in the making of modern Japan.