Ruffians, yakuza, nationalists [electronic resource] : the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860-1960 / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.
Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: xi, 270 p. : illISBN:- 9780801447204 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801447208 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801461859 (e-book)
- 306.20952/09034 22
- HN730.Z9 V55 2008eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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