Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan

ISBN-13: 9780674983878 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Maren A. Ehlers

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Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600 1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each otheras they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.