1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910799907503321

Autore

McCormack Noah Y.

Titolo

Japan's outcaste abolition : the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state / / Noah Y. McCormack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-28367-6

1-283-58660-6

9786613899057

0-203-11274-1

1-136-28368-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Asia's transformations ; ; 36

Disciplina

305.5/680952

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Japan - History

Outcasts - Japan - History

Social status - Japan - History

Social movements - Japan - History

Assimilation (Sociology) - Japan - History

Equality - Japan - History

Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

Japan History Meiji period, 1868-1912

Japan Social conditions 1600-1868

Japan Social conditions 1868-1912

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817217203321

Autore

Brown Scott Shorey <1951->

Titolo

Bounds on transfer principles for algebraically closed and complete discretely valued fields / / Scott Shorey Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1978]

©1978

ISBN

1-4704-0302-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 204

Disciplina

512/.74

Soggetti

Algebraic fields

Transfer functions

p-adic numbers

Valued fields

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A revision of the author's thesis, Princeton University, 1976.

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: pages 89-90.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Prerequisites in Logic""; ""III. Methods for Limitation of Quantifiers""; ""IV. Additive Rational Numbers""; ""V. Additive Integers""; ""VI. Projection of a Set of Polynomials""; ""VII. Real Numbers""; ""VIII. Valued Fields""; ""IX. Algebraically Closed Fields""; ""X. Convergent Power Series Over Complete Algebraically Closed Valued Fields""; ""XI. Hensel's Lemma""; ""XII. Convergence of Series Solutions of Polynomials""

""XIII. Complete Discretely Valued Fields with Residue Class Field Z[sub(p)] and p Large""""XIV. Applications to the Ax-Kochen Transfer Principle and the Artin Conjecture""; ""Bibliography""; ""Notation""; ""Index""