Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan.
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2005. Stock ID #178744 "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. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178744.
Maps and plans, black and white photographic and line illustrations, xiv + 319pp, index, notes, bibliography, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy.
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." (Publisher's description).
Price: $40.00 AU