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 otheras they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Maren A. Ehlers
• Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780674983878
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98387-8
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 279 mm x 220 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 638 g
• Illustrazioni: 21 halftones, 5 maps, 4 tables
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni