Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan /

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Author / Creator:	Botsman, Dani, author.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005] ©2005
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Punishment -- Japan -- History. Punishment. Japan -- History -- 1868- Japan. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11208227

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ISBN:	9781400849291 1400849292 0691114919 9780691114910 9780691130309 0691130302
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Botsman, Dani. Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan 0691114919

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