Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern JapanPrinceton University Press, 24 okt 2013 - 312 pagina's 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. |
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Signs of Order Punishment and Power in the Shoguns Capital | 14 |
Bloody Benevolence Punishment Ideology and Outcasts | 41 |
The Power of Status Kodenmachō Jailhouse and the Structures of Tokugawa Society | 59 |
Discourse Dynamism and Disorder The Historical Significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers | 85 |
Punishment and the Politics of Civilization in Bakumatsu Japan | 115 |
Restoration and Reform The Birth of the Prison in Japan | 141 |