Burning and Building : Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890 / Brian Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Brian, 1970- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 237.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection ISBN: 9789004407077.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 237

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Japan--History.

Education and state.

Educational change.

History.

Education--Social aspects.

Japan.

Education--Social aspects--Japan--History.

Education.

Educational change--Japan--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book traces the unfolding of this process in Nagano prefecture and explores how local people negotiated the formation of the new order in their own communities.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Commoner Schooling in Tokugawa-Era Shinano

Village Elites and the Changing Meaning of "School" in the Late Tokugawa Period

Post-Restoration Innovation and the Fundamental Code, 1868-1872

National Policy and Local Mobilization, 1872-1876

Local Resistance to the Fundamental Code

Negotiating "School" in Mid-Meiji Japan, 1876-1890

The Local in the Nation-State

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890,

ISBN:

9781684174010

9780674013964

OCLC:

1001542052

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684174010 DOI

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.