Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Botsman, Dani (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kolonie.
Strafvollzug.
Recht.
Sociale orde.
Strafstelsel.
Straffen.
Straf.
Kolonie
Strafvollzug
Recht
Punishment.
LAW > Criminal Procedure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Peines > Japon > Histoire.
Punishment > Japan > History.
Japan.
Japan
Japon > Histoire > 1868-
Japan > History > 1868-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world." "The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781400849291

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