Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan / Daniel V. Botsman.
2005
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Author
Title
Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan / Daniel V. Botsman.
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Call Number
HV9812 .B68 2005
ISBN
0691114919 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691114910 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691130309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691130302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691114910 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691130309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691130302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)54081903
Summary
"The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world." "The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-302) and index.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1
Signs of order : punishment and power in the Shogun's capital
14
Ch. 2
Bloody benevolence : punishment, ideology, and outcasts
41
Ch. 3
The power of status : Kodenmacho Jailhouse and the structures of Tokugawa society
59
Ch. 4
Discourse, dynamism, and disorder : the historical significance of the Edo Stockade for Laborers
85
Ch. 5
Punishment and the politics of civilization in Bakumatsu Japan
115
Ch. 6
Punishment and reform : the birth of the prison in Japan
141
Ch. 7
Punishment and prisons in the era of enlightenment
165
Conclusion : punishment, empire, and history in the making of modern Japan
201