Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan

by Irwin Scheiner

Book Overview

Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929280203
• ISBN13: 9781929280209
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"