Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists : The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siniawer, Eiko Maruko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political violence.
Politics and government
Democracy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Violence politique > Japon > Histoire.
Democracy > Japan > History.
Political violence > Japan > History.
Japan.
Japon > Politique et gouvernement > 1868-
Japan > Politics and government > 1868-
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Patriots and gamblers: violence and the formation of the Meiji state
  • Violent democracy: ruffians and the birth of parliamentary politics
  • Institutionalized ruffianism and a culture of political violence
  • Fascist violence: ideology and power in prewar Japan
  • Democracy reconstructed: violence specialists in the postwar period
  • Afterword.

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