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Author Bix, Herbert P

Title Peasant protest in Japan, 1590-1884 / Herbert P. Bix
Published New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents pt. I. Defeat: The onset of feudal decline -- Class structure and dynamics in seventeenth-century Tsuyama -- The coming conflict: Taxes, competition, and reform -- The Sanchū rising of 1726-1726 -- Epilogue: Tsuyama after 1727 -- pt. II. Forward again: Readjusting the social contract -- Historical setting in eighteenth-century Ueda -- A decade of polarization, 1751-1761 -- Prologue and periodization of the Ueda Hōreki rising, 1761-1763 -- Results and aftermath -- pt. III. Reaction: Social developments of the late Eighteenth Century -- The crisis of Tenmei -- The Tenmei Rising in Fukuyama, 1786-1787 -- Dealing in the landlords: The Kansei reforms and Fukuyama Fief, 1790-1805 -- pt. IV. Transitions to a new order: class conflicts up to the late Nineteenth Century -- Problem of interpretation -- Conflict and social change, 1800-1873 -- The Kasei Rising in Tsuyama, 1866-1867 -- The debased-currency risings in Shinshū, 1869-1870 -- Results and conclusions
Analysis Japan Peasant revolutionary movements, 1590-1884
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Peasants -- Political activity -- Japan -- History
Peasant uprisings -- Japan -- History
Peasants -- Political activity -- Japan
HISTORY -- General.
Peasant uprisings
Peasants -- Political activity
Social conditions
SUBJECT Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069574
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 85017889
ISBN 9780300241600
0300241607