Give and Take - Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

About the author

Maren A. Ehlers is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Summary

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Maren A Ehlers, Maren A. Ehlers
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780674251274
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25127-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LAW / Government / General, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Government powers