"strafferet" . . "Peines Japon Histoire." . . "Strafvollzug Modernisierung Japan Geschichte." . . "Electronic books." . . "Electronic books" . "Recht." . . "Strafe." . . "LAW / Criminal Procedure" . . "Sociale orde." . . . . "\"While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the official punishments in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this book begins by showing that these formed part of a sophisticated system of order that did have its limits. Botsman then demonstrates that although significant innovations occurred later in the period, they do not fit smoothly into a simple narrative of \"modernization.\" After 1868, the new Meiji regime soon relaized that the modern prison could serve not only as a symbol of Japan's international progress but also as a powerful domestic tool. The first English-language study of the history of punishment in Japan, the book concludes by examining how modern ideas about progress and civilization shaped penal practices in Japan's own colonial empire.\"--Back cover." . . "The kinds of punishment used in a society have long been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world. While there is no denying the ferocity of many of the penal practices in use during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), this b."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan"@en . . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . . . . . . . . "\"Penal practices have long been considered important for judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. Focusing on Japan, and the dramatic revolution in punishments that occurred after the Meiji Restoration, Daniel Botsman asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed, in turn, to the proliferation of new kinds of barbarity in the modern world.\"--Back cover." . . . . . . . . . . "History" . "History"@en . . "Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan"@en . "Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan" . . . "Kolonie." . . "Geschichte 1600-1868." . . "Japan." . . "Japan" . "peine (droit) Japon 17e s. / 20e s. (début)" . . . . "Geschichte" . . "Strafe Modernisierung Japan Geschichte." . . "Strafvollzug Japan Geschichte Neuzeit." . . "Strafstelsel." . . "Geschichte 1600-1895" . . "Straffen." . . "social forandring" . . "Punishment" . . "Punishment." . "straf" . . "Straf." . "Punishment Japan History." . . "SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology" . . "Strafvollzug." . . "Since 1868" . . "Prisons Japon Histoire." . . "Japon" . .