Deference and Defiance In Nineteenth-century Japan (ebook)

Argumento de Deference and Defiance In Nineteenth-century Japan (ebook)

Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests, their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism.

Originally published in 1985.

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