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UNINA9910462299003321 |
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Autore |
McCormack Noah Y. |
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Titolo |
Japan's outcaste abolition : the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state / / Noah Y. McCormack |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-58660-6 |
9786613899057 |
0-203-11274-1 |
1-136-28368-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Asia's transformations ; ; 36 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Marginality, Social - Japan - History |
Outcasts - Japan - History |
Social status - Japan - History |
Social movements - Japan - History |
Assimilation (Sociology) - Japan - History |
Equality - Japan - History |
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Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 |
Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912 |
Japan Social conditions 1600-1868 |
Japan Social conditions 1868-1912 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Outcaste status after equality -- A status society -- Outcaste status -- Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition -- Defiled bloodlines -- Foreign origins as stigma -- The stigma of place -- Assimilation as liberation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary |
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divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants. Subsequently, during the two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule, status laws backed by coercive force worked to limit social mobility between groups and regulate relations between people of dif |
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