Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

by Maren A Ehlers

Book Overview

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 such as outcastes and itinerant entertainers. Most of these individuals are now forgotten and do not feature in general histories except as bystanders, protesters, or subjects of exploitation. Yet despite their subordinate status, they actively participated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067425127X
• ISBN13: 9780674251274
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.2"