- Acknowledgments
- Geographical Terms
- I. The Historiographical Context: Local Political History of the Meiji Period
- II. Kawasaki and the Meiji Restoration
- 1. Tokugawa Rule
- Development of Intervillage Organizations: The Kumiai
- Commercialization of the Local Economy
- Regional Solidarity during the Fall of the Bakufu
- 2. The Early Meiji Period: Local Response to Modern Administration
- The New Government: Early Impressions
- Local Administration in Early Meiji
- Local Alterations of National Reforms
- Economic Adapation in Early Meiji
- 3. The Period of Possibilities: Political Activism and Adaptation to Central Government Control
- Prefectural Administration under the Three New Laws
- Political Activities in the Kawasaki Region to 1882
- Impact of the Matsukata Deflation
- Gōnō Relations with Government after 1882
- 1. Tokugawa Rule
- III. Conclusion
- Appendix: Composition of the Kawasaki Region
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS


Harvard East Asian Monographs 105
Japan’s Local Pragmatists
The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region
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ISBN 9780674471924
Publication Date: 08/29/1983
178 pages
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1 line illustration, 5 maps
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