Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: The central contribution of the above recent books is both very negative and very important.They dispel any lingering notion about the Japanese peasants' willing and peaceable acceptance of authority and hierarchy under the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1867) and on into the early years of the Meiji Restoration.It is important because it entails a sharp revision of a widespread image of Japanese society that has influenced social theories and political judgments held in the West for many years.Whatever har monious acceptance of authority may exist in Japan today obviously has behind it, in many areas, a bloody past.Now that these four studies and a few others 1 are available, it seems rather odd that intensive studies of Japanese peasant protests did not * A s always I am happy to express my gratitude for the support and encouragement of the Russian Research Center, Harvard University.
Author: Barrington Moore
Language: English
Topic: Japanese History and Culture
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2042997809