The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State
by
Noah Y. McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and...