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Land and lordship in early modern Japan / Mark Ravina.
LIBRA DS871 .R38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ravina, Mark, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Politics and government--1600-1868.
- Japan.
- Politics and government.
- Yonezawa-han (Japan)--Politics and government.
- Yonezawa-han (Japan).
- Tokushima-han (Japan)--Politics and government.
- Tokushima-han (Japan).
- Hirosaki-han (Japan)--Politics and government.
- Hirosaki-han (Japan).
- Physical Description:
- xx, 278 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Examines local politics in three Japanese domains to show how warlords and their samurai adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic growth in the mid-Tokugawa period. Looks at the impact of shogunate/domain relations on warlord legitimacy, and puts forward a new theory of warlord legitimacy in order to explain the persistence of their autonomy in civil affairs. Also examines the quantitative dimension of warlord rule.
- Contents:
- 1 Land and Lordship: Ideology and Political Practice in Early Modern Japan 16
- Assessing States 23
- Language and Land 28
- Language and Translation 31
- Language and Sovereignty 34
- 2 The Nerves of the State: The Political Economy of Daimyo Rule 46
- Sources of Revenue 53
- Demands for Expenditure 61
- Politics as Process 69
- 3 Profit and Propriety: Political Economy in Yonezawa 71
- Taxes and Monopsony in Early Yonezawa 80
- Fiscal Decline and Internecine Strife 84
- Uesugi Harunori and the Politics of Virtue 87
- Rebuilding a Moral Economy 93
- Fiscal Reconstruction and the Legitimation of Profit 97
- Labors of the Samurai 103
- Entrepreneurs and Laborers 110
- Success and Debacle 113
- 4 Land and Labor: Political Economy in Hirosaki 115
- Land Development in Early Hirosaki 120
- Hirosaki Commercial Policy: The Horeki Reforms 122
- A Return to Origins: The Tenmei Famine and Samurai Resettlement 128
- Peculation and Pragmatism: Land Reclamation Policy 141
- The Politics of Subversion: The Tenpo Famine and Tsugaru Sodo 147
- Bakumatsu Hirosaki 152
- 5 Markets and Mercantilism: Political Economy in Tokushima 154
- Fiscal Policy in Early Tokushima 161
- Commercialization and Popular Resistance 164
- Commercial Reforms and Indigo Exports 168
- The Nobility of Treason and the Treason of Nobility: The Fall of Hachisuka Shigeyoshi 176
- The Rise of Cartels 180
- The Tenpo Crisis in Tokushima 187
- Millenarianism in Tokushima 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804728984
- OCLC:
- 38168265
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