Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan /

In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explic...

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Auteur principal: Howell, David L. (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press 2005.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp6vw
Table des matières:
  • The geography of status
  • Status and the politics of the quotidian
  • Violence and the abolition of outcaste status
  • Ainu identity and the early modern state
  • The geography of civilization
  • Civilization and enlightenment
  • Ainu identity and the Meiji State.