Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan
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agriculture
asia studies
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Author_Stephen Vlastos
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class differences
collective action
early modern japan
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feudalism
fukushima
historians
japan
japan scholars
japanese cultural history
japanese history
japanese peasants
living conditions
meiji restoration
mobilization
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peasant protests
peasant uprisings
political history
ruling class
rural villages
social history
tokugawa
tokugawa period
village life
villagers
warring factions
world history
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- ISBN 9780520072039
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 1990
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa.
