- Tables, Maps, and Figures
- Measures and Money
- Introduction
- 1. Fixing Borders: Toyama’s Political Restoration
- Fixing Borders
- Ideology, Interests, and Prefectural Independence
- Central Considerations
- Conclusion
- 2. Losing Ground: The Restoration and the Local Economy
- The Pre-Meiji Regional Economy
- Losing Ground: Imperial Restoration and Local Economic Decline
- Conclusion
- 3. Rivers, Policies, and River Politicians
- The Rivers
- Restoration and River Controls: The Emergence of a National Policy
- The Need for River Politics
- River Politicians: Inagaki Shimesu
- Partymen and Prefectural Officials as Agents of Local Improvement
- Conclusion
- 4. Popular Protest: Rice, Steamships, and Power
- The Bandori Riots, 1869
- The Tode Protests, 1877
- The 1878 Steamship Protests and Market Riots of 1890 and 1918
- Electric Power, Loggers, and the Anti-Dam Movement, 1922–1933
- Power Rate Protests, 1927 and 1928
- Conclusion
- 5. Local Imperialism and the Chimera of Progress
- The Local Press: Imperial Motives
- From Ideas to Implementation: Local Elites and Imperial Policies and Programs
- Grassroots Imperialism
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Continuities
- Center and Religion Revisited: Ties That Bind and Fetter
- Economic Fragility and Population Stagnation
- Domestic Dependencies: Rivers, Bullet Trains, and Party Politics
- International Considerations: Hands across the Sea
- Defending Local Welfare: Postwar Protest and Resistance
- Reference Matter
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 192
Becoming Apart
National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1945
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