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Author Ehlers, Maren Annika, 1975- author.

Title Give and take : poverty and the status order in early modern Japan / Maren A. Ehlers
Published Cambridge, (Massachusetts) : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 413
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 413.
Contents The castle town and domain of Ono -- Beggars by birth: an outcaste group in domain society -- The management of mendicancy -- The guilds of the blind -- Benevolence, charity, or duty? : hunger relief in the castle town -- Growth through gratitude: welfare in a mercantilist domain
Summary "Offers a new history of early modern Japan that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, peasants, and people at the margins of society such as entertainers, laborers, and outcastes. This is the first book to explore how high and low people in Tokugawa society negotiated and collaborated with one other"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Social classes -- Japan -- History
Poverty -- Japan -- History
Poverty
Social classes
Social conditions
Armut
Edo-Zeit
Soziale Klasse
SUBJECT Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069574
Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069473
Subject Japan
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684175895
1684175895