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Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

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Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan - Vlastos, Stephen
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The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugawa period. Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a ...

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Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan 1990, University of California Press, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520072039

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Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan 1986, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520046146

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