Mikiso Hane

Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes

The Underside of Modern Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

Produktdetails

• Asian Voices
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Updated Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781442274174
• ISBN-10: 1442274174
• Artikelnr.: 45643304

Autorenporträt

Mikiso Hane (1922-2003) was professor emeritus of history at Knox College. Samuel H. Yamashita is Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Japanese Weights and Measures Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition Maps Introduction MODERNIZATION AND THE
PEASANTS FARMING AND FARM LIFE MORALS AND MORES RURAL WOMEN THE STRUGGLE
FOR SURVIVAL THE OUTCASTE IN JAPAN THE TEXTILE FACTORY WORKERS POVERTY AND
PROSTITUTION THE COAL MINERS WOMEN REBELS EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR YEARS Notes
Index