The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790-1864 Tapa dura - 1987

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hardcover in Fine DJ. Beige linen-grain cloth over boards, brown titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; light dust spotting on text block edges; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete. 8vo, 190 pp; index, biblio.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering; tan dust jacket with burgundy lettering and bw illustrations; ix, 190 pp. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The problem of method -- Tokugawa ideology -- Tokugawa reformism -- Historiographical perspective -- Rectification and myth -- The plight of the domain -- The Mito historiographical tradition -- Rectification of names -- Natural order through artifice -- The national essence -- History as entropy -- Eternal return through imperial ritual -- The need for action -- Reform as representation -- Demarcating the land -- Grounding the aristocracy -- Spreading the way -- The domain as microcosm -- Recruitment of commoners -- The Tenpo legacy -- The intrusion of national politics -- Education as ideology -- Assassination at Sakurada Gate -- Ritual and action in… Leer más