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Japan's outcaste abolition : the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state / Noah Y. McCormack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCormack, Noah Y., author.
- Series:
- Asia's Transformations
- Asia's transformations ; 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--Japan--History.
- Marginality, Social.
- Outcasts--Japan--History.
- Outcasts.
- Social status--Japan--History.
- Social status.
- Social movements--Japan--History.
- Social movements.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--Japan--History.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- Equality--Japan--History.
- Equality.
- Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912.
- Japan--Social conditions--1600-1868.
- Japan--Social conditions--1868-1912.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants. Subsequently, during the two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule, status laws backed by coercive force worked to limit social mobility between groups and regulate relations between people of dif
- Contents:
- Outcaste status after equality
- A status society
- Outcaste status
- Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition
- Defiled bloodlines
- Foreign origins as stigma
- The stigma of place
- Assimilation as liberation.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-28367-6
- 1-283-58660-6
- 9786613899057
- 0-203-11274-1
- 1-136-28368-4
- 9780203112748
- OCLC:
- 810082341
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