Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan - Softcover

Vlastos, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520072030 ISBN 13: 9780520072039

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa.

Review:

"A succinct and lucid historical overview of protest during the Edo period. . . . Students of Tokugawa history, of peasant protest, and of the political economy of premodern societies will read "Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan to their profit."--James W. White, "Monumenta Nipponica

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0520072030
• ISBN 13: 9780520072039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200