Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan /
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| Author / Creator: | Vlastos, Stephen, 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986. |
| Description: | xii, 184 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/706891 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1.. Introduction
- Conflict and Collective Action
- Tokugawa Political Economy
- Organization and Mobilization
- Goals and Ideology
- Collective Action and Violence
- 2.. The Political Economy of Benevolence
- Conflict over the Land Tax
- Examples from Fukushima
- Daimyo Bad and Good: Aizu in the Seventeenth Century
- 3.. Collective Action in the First Half of the Tokugawa Period
- The Minamiyama Direct-Appeal Movement
- Direct-Appeal Movements: Possibilities and Expectations
- Demonstrating in Force
- Protests in the Mid-Tokugawa Period
- 4.. New Causes of Conflict
- Collection of Taxes in Kind
- Revolt against the Village Headman
- Economic Conflict in the Village
- 5.. Sericulture and Village Economy in Shindatsu
- Development of Silk Production
- Technology and Economy of Scale
- Sericulture and Peasant Economy
- 6.. The 1866 Shindatsu Uprising
- Poor Peasants Protest
- The Uprising
- Economic Background
- Mobilization in the Late Tokugawa Period
- 7.. Yonaoshi Uprisings in Aizu, 1868
- 8.. Conclusion: Subsistence and Rebellion at the End of the Tokugawa Period
- Bibliography
- Index