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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, Daniel...
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Princeton University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: Signs of Order: Punishment and Power in the Shogun's Capital; CHAPTER 2: Bloody Benevolence: Punishment, Ideology, and Outcasts; CHAPTER 3: The Power of Status: Kodenmachō Jailhouse and the Structures of Tokugawa Society; CHAPTER 4: Discourse, Dynamism, and Disorder: The Historical Significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers; CHAPTER 5: Punishment and the Politics of Civilization in Bakumatsu Japan; CHAPTER 6: Restoration and Reform: The Birth of the Prison in Japan.
- CHAPTER 7: Punishment and Prisons in the Era of EnlightenmentCONCLUSION: Punishment, Empire, and History in the Making of Modern Japan; Notes; Bibliography; Index.