Caste In Early Modern Japan

Author : Timothy Amos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429863035

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"Caste", a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship. This has not always been the case, and the term was often used among earlier generations of scholars, who introduced the Buraku problem to Western audiences. Amos argues that time for reappraisal is well overdue and that a combination of ideas, beliefs, and practices rooted in Confucian, Buddhist, Shinto, and military traditions were brought together from the late 16th century in ways that influenced the development of institutions and social structures on the Japanese archipelago. These influences brought the social structures closer in form and substance to certain caste formations found in the Indian subcontinent during the same period. Specifically, Amos analyses the evolution of the so-called Danzaemon outcaste order. This order was a 17th century caste configuration produced as a consequence of early modern Tokugawa rulers’ decisions to engage in a state-building project rooted in military logic and built on the back of existing manorial and tribal-class arrangements. He further examines the history behind the primary duties expected of outcastes within the Danzaemon order: notably execution and policing, as well as leather procurement. Reinterpreting Japan as a caste society, this book propels us to engage in fuller comparisons of how outcaste communities’ histories and challenges have diverged and converged over time and space, and to consider how better to eradicate discrimination based on caste logic. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese History, Culture and Society.

Author : John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400868957

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Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan by John Whitney Hall,Marius B. Jansen Pdf

This study contains twenty-two essays by leading historians on the Tokugawa Period (1600-1868), eight of which have never before been published. The Tokugawa Period has long been seen as one of Eastern feudalism, awaiting the breakthrough that came with the Meiji enlightenment and the opening of Japan to the West. The general thrust of these papers is to show that in many institutional aspects Japan was far from backward before the Meiji Period, and that many of the preconditions of modernization were present and developing much earlier than has generally been believed. This collection will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of comparative and Japanese modernization. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280913

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Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Pdf

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.

Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0429503210

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Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Pdf

"Winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials awarded by the Association for Asian Studies and the Committee for Teaching About Asia (CTA) Voices of Early Modern Japan offers an accessible and well-balanced view of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century through the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the opening of Japan by the West in the mid-nineteenth century. Through a close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era?its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources from all levels of Japanese society, from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, are carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship. Constantine Nomikos Vaporis ably demonstrates how historians use primary documents and what can be uncovered from the words of ordinary people who lived centuries earlier. With robust reader resources and comprehensive coverage, Voices of Early Modern Japan is the perfect addition for students and interested readers seeking a fuller understanding of the Tokugawa period.For updates on web materials mentioned in the book, supplemental materials, and to contact the author, please visit voicesofearlymodernjapan.wordpress.com."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Constantine Vaporis
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313392009

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Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Vaporis Pdf

Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600–1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 17th century to the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the mid-19th century opening of Japan by the West. Through close examinations of sources from a time known as "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era—its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources come from all levels of Japanese society, everything from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, all carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship.

Author : Timothy Amos,Akiko Ishii
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000508185

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Revisiting Japan’s Restoration by Timothy Amos,Akiko Ishii Pdf

This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways. On a scale probably never before seen in the study of the Restoration outside Japan, the short chapters in this volume reveal unique aspects of the transformative event and process not previously explored in previous research. They do this in three core ways: through selecting and deploying different time frames in their historical analysis; by creative experimentation with different spatial units through which to ascertain historical experience; and by innovative selection of unique and highly original topics for analysis. The volume offers students and teachers of Japanese history, modern history, and East Asian studies an important resource for coming to grips with the multifaceted nature of Japan’s nineteenth-century transformation. The volume will also have broader appeal to scholars working in fields such as early modern/modern world history, global history, Asian modernities, gender studies, economic history, and postcolonial studies.

Author : Timothy D. Amos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038122107

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Embodying Difference by Timothy D. Amos Pdf

First published in New Delhi by Navayana Publishing.

Author : Lúcio De Sousa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004388079

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The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan by Lúcio De Sousa Pdf

In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.

Author : Ashwini Deshpande
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811941665

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Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action by Ashwini Deshpande Pdf

This Handbook deals with theoretical and empirical evidence on the economics of discrimination and affirmative action across the world, assessed over a variety of social identities, such as caste, race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, tribal status. It also outlines methodological advances in this area, with plenty of additional references for the interested reader. It combines theoretical frameworks developed in the West with historical writings about discrimination and social justice from primarily Indian philosophers, aspects which are typically not found under one roof. It offers the reader a combination of insights into theories across a range of disciplines, as well as evidence, data –both quantitative and qualitative, in addition to the latest methodological advances in the estimation of discrimination – econometric, experimental, mixed-methods.

Author : Yu Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429755491

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Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895 by Yu Suzuki Pdf

This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests, and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, had already existed in the 1880s. Such understandings fail to take account of the fact that the Qing dynasty of China had emerged as the strongest regional power in East Asia by reasserting its influence as the traditional suzerain of the region in the years prior to the First Sino-Japanese War. The British and the Japanese governments clearly recognised that it would become difficult to maintain their interests in East Asia if they antagonised the Qing by challenging its claim of suzerainty over Korea. It was difficult for them to come to closer terms when their priority before 1894-5 was to maintain good relations with China, and when they were also experiencing numerous diplomatic difficulties with each other.

Author : Seok-Won Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000334432

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Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire by Seok-Won Lee Pdf

This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan’s war, 1931–1945. As Japan invaded China and conducted a full-scale war against the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several versions of a Pan-Asian empire were presented by Japanese intellectuals, in order to maximize wartime collaboration and mobilization in China and the colonies. A broad group of social scientists – including Rōyama Masamichi, Kada Tetsuji, Ezawa Jōji, Takata Yasuma, and Shinmei Masamichi – presented highly politicized visions of a new Asia characterized by a newly shared Asian identity. Critically examining how Japanese social scientists contrived the logic of a Japan-led East Asian community, Part I of this book demonstrates the violent nature of imperial knowledge production which buttresses colonial developmentalism. In Part II, the book also explores questions around the (re)making of colonial Korea as part of Japan’s regional empire, generating theoretical and realistic tensions between resistance and collaboration. Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire provides original theoretical perspectives on the construction of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural empire. It will appeal to students and scholars of modern Japanese history, colonial and postcolonial studies, as well as Korean studies.

Author : Conrad Totman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520203563

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Early Modern Japan by Conrad Totman Pdf

This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering natural disasters, resource use, demographics, and river control.

Author : Michael Weiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351246682

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Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia by Michael Weiner Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia introduces theoretical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in Asia beyond those commonly grounded in the Western experience. The volume’s twenty-eight chapters consider not only the relationship between ethnic or racial minorities and the state, but social relations within and between individual and transnational communities. These shape not only the contours of governance, but also the means by which knowledge of national identity, ‘self ’, and ‘other’ have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Divided into four sections, it provides holistic and comparative coverage of South, South East, and East Asia, as well as Australasia and Oceania; an area that extends from Pakistan in the West to Hawai’i in the East. Contributors to this handbook offer a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, opening a domain of scholarship wherein the relationship between phenotype and racism is less pronounced than European and North American approaches, which have often privileged the so-called ‘colour stigmata’, leading to further exclusions of particular ethnic, racial, and indigenous communities. This volume seeks to overcome racism and white ideologies embedded in theories of race and ethnicity in Asia, proving a valuable resource to both students and scholars of comparative racial and ethnic studies, international relations and human rights.

Author : Christopher Porto
Publisher : Christopher Porto
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tokugawa Japan & NATO: Structures of Arms Control Beyond the State by Christopher Porto Pdf

Structures of Arms Control Beyond the State: The Success of NATO and Tokugawa Japan (and also a somewhat longer version) was presented as a dissertation proposal at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA in 2006 and 2007. This project has its origins in two larger projects Nuclear Weapons Sharing, and Yoshiwara as Jujitsu: Cities of the Future. It is an exploratory study. The present version has been slightly revised including the title. For simplicity of presentation, I have moved most of the notes into body of the book. Contents include: Introduction I: Arms Control in Early Modern Japan & Early Modern Europe II: NATO as Arms Control III: The Warsaw Pact as Arms Control IV: Attempts to Centralize Control over Nuclear Weapons after WWII Conclusions: Towards a Model of Arms Control and Weapons Diffusion On the Co-evolution of Technology and Social Organization Notes References

Author : Marius Nerthus Jansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0835778916

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Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan by Marius Nerthus Jansen Pdf