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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.