Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan /
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-302) and index.
Introduction -- Signs of order : punishment and power in the shogun's capital -- Bloody benevolence : punishment, ideology, and outcasts -- The power of status : Kodenmach�o jailhouse and the structures of Tokugawa society -- Discourse, dynamism, and disorder : the historical significance of the Edo stockade for laborers -- Punishment and the politics of civilization in Bakumatsu Japan -- Restoration and reform : the birth of the prison in Japan -- Punishment and prisons in the era of enlightenment -- Punishment, empire, and history in the making of modern Japan.
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