Peasant Uprisings in Japan
Peasant Uprisings in Japan

Author: Anne Walthall

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991-12-15

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226872346

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Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.

Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

Author: Stephen Vlastos

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780520072039

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The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a prime moving force in the Meiji Restoration.

Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

Author: Stephen Vlastos

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0520072030

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The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a prime moving force in the Meiji Restoration.

The Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration

Author: Robert Hellyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-07

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1108478050

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This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.

World Trade Systems of the East and West
World Trade Systems of the East and West

Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9004358560

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In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.