Central authority and local autonomy in the formation of early modern Japan : the case of Kaga domain
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Bibliographic Information
Central authority and local autonomy in the formation of early modern Japan : the case of Kaga domain
Stanford University Press, 1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-299) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The history of Japan in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries is one of increasing political stability after a century of bloody warfare. This book argues that the factors leading toward social, political and economic stability came primarily from local domain and village governments. The author explores the evolution of local administration primarily in the context of Kaga, the single largest domain. This study is the first to suggest an active, constructive role for villagers in the development of early modern Japanese political institutions and policies and the first detailed Western analysis of the development of late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth century land taxation, the major nexus of domain-village interaction. Even where Kaga was not typical of all Japan, events there highlight the range of patterns through which lord, retainer, and village negotiated to create a mutually tolerable, if not always easy, relationship.
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