In Close Association. Local Activist Networks in the Making of Japanese Modernity, 1868-1920.
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Asia Center. 2022. Stock ID #217100 This book uncovers in vivid detail how a colorful group of Okayama-based activists founded institutions, engaged in the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, promoted social reform, and advocated "civilization and enlightenment" while forging pathbreaking conceptions of self and society. Alongside them were Western Protestant missionaries, making this story at once a local history and a transnational one. When referring to this item please quote stockid 217100.
Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 194pp, bibliography, index. As new hardback copy in dustjacket.
Placing gender analysis at its core, the book offers fresh perspectives on what women did beyond domestic boundaries, while showing men's lives, too, were embedded in home and kin. (Publisher's description)
Price: $55.00 AU