Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (eBook)

Daniel V. Botsman (Autor)

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2013
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4929-1 (ISBN)

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Daniel V. Botsman is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has lived in Japan for several years and also taught in the Faculty of Law at Hokkaido University.

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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. While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the penal practices in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this book begins by showing that these formed part of a sophisticated system of order that did have its limits. Botsman then demonstrates that although significant innovations occurred later in the period, they did not fit smoothly into the "e;modernization"e; process. Instead, he argues, the Western powers forced a break with the past by using the specter of Oriental barbarism to justify their own aggressive expansion into East Asia. The ensuing changes were not simply imposed from outside, however. The Meiji regime soon realized that the modern prison could serve not only as a symbol of Japan's international progress but also as a powerful domestic tool. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Americans in Japan • Ansei Purge • arson • assassination • attempt • authoritarianism • Bakumatsu • Barbarism (linguistics) • Bloody Code • bureaucrat • Capital punishment • civil disorder • Colonialism • communist revolution • corporal punishment • Crime • crime in Japan • Criminal Law • Criticism • cruelty • Daimyo • Death by burning • decapitation • Decolonization • Disciplinary institution • Discipline and Punish • Edo Period • Empire of Japan • Evil customs • Extraterritoriality • feudalism • First Sino-Japanese War • Flagellation • Fukuzawa Yukichi • Hokkaido • Home Ministry • house arrest • House of Correction • Ichi (scarification) • Illustrations of Japan • imperialism • Imprisonment • Incest • industrial school • Institution • Interrogation • Ishikawa Goemon • Iwakura Mission • Journal of Japanese Studies • Kansei Reforms • Kido Takayoshi • Korea under Japanese rule • Mass Incarceration • Meiji period • meiji restoration • Modernity • Namamugi Incident • Narcissism • Nativism (politics) • New Laws • New Prison • Ostracism • Penology • Persecution • Postwar Japan • power politics • Prison • Prison Reform • Public Execution • public humiliation • Punishment and Social Structure • Racism • Recidivism • Reformatory • Riken • Rogue state • Russo-Japanese war • Samurai Rebellion • Satsuma Rebellion • Secretary at War • Seppuku • Shogun • Slavery • Superiority (short story) • Taiwan under Japanese rule • Takasugi Shinsaku • Theft • The Spirit of the Laws • tokugawa shogunate • Tokushi Yoron • Torture • torture chamber • Total War • Toyotomi Hideyoshi • Unequal treaty • unrest • Urban Riots • war • war of aggression • Warring States Period
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4929-2 / 1400849292
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4929-1 / 9781400849291