Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan

Author/Contributor(s):	White, James W
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	03/24/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. James W. White reconstructs the pattern of social conflict in early modern Japan, both among common people and between the populace and the government. Ikki is the first book to cover popular protest in...