Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950 Volume 25

by Fabian Drixler

This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. In these pages, the long conflict over the meaning of infanticide comes to life once again...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272439
• ISBN13: 9780520272439
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 439 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"