Screen LibraryRuffians, yakuza, nationalists：the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860-1960
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Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 270 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780801447204 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447208 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D731 |
| CLC: | D731.39 |
| Call Number: | D731.39/S617 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-249) and index. Introduction -- Patriots and gamblers: violence and the formation of the Meiji state -- Violent democracy: ruffians and the birth of parliamentary politics -- Institutionalized ruffianism and a culture of political violence -- Fascist violence: ideology and power in prewar Japan -- Democracy reconstructed: violence specialists in the postwar period -- Afterword. |