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Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan
By (Author) William Wright Kelly
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Asian history
952.025
Hardback
340
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
652g
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 a