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Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests, their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
J4000.60 --- J3429.80 --- J3365 --- J4600.60 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Tōhoku -- Yamagata prefecture -- cities, districts, towns and villages --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- 19th century general --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Shonai Region (Japan) --- -Shōnai-heiya (Japan) --- Politics and government --- -Politics and government --- Peasant uprisings --- Peasants' uprisings --- Uprisings, Peasant --- Insurgency --- Revolutions --- Shōnai Region (Japan) --- Shōnai-heiya (Japan) --- Politics and government. --- J4672.29 --- Japan: Politics and law -- local politics and government -- Tōhoku -- Yamagata prefecture (Uzen, Dewa) --- Shōnai Region (Japan)
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Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and th
Ethnology --- Agriculture --- Community life --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Human ecology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social aspects --- Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- J4190.25 --- J4196 --- J3429.80 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Tōhoku -- Akita prefecture --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- rural communities --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Tōhoku -- Akita prefecture -- cities, districts, towns and villages --- Ogata-mura (Akita-ken, Japan)
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