David L Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1101374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan
This chapter focuses on the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state, and examines the social status. Inner boundaries separated the core polity from the dependent yet autonomous peripheries of Japan, while less well-defined outer boundaries set the peripheries apart from the non-Japanese world. The core polity's inner boundaries linked the overlapping internal geographies of shogunate, domains, temple grounds, and outcaste territories into …
Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan
Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
The apparent inevitability of Tokugawa Japan’s opening to the West in 1854 has naturalized the story of how a series of overtures from the late eighteenth century onward culminated in Commodore Matthew Perry’s successful mission. This essay proposes to disrupt that teleology through an examination of the differing responses of officials and commoners to a minor incident in 1824, which brought English whalers into contact with ordinary Japanese. T…
Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868
Since the early 1980s, nearly every account of Japanese foreign relations during the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) has started with talk of a paradigm shift, away from a secluded Japan to one deeply engaged with its neighbors in East Asia. The works that prompted this reevaluation of Tokugawa Japan’s place in the world include Tashiro’s (1981, 1982) studies of trade and diplomacy with Korea; Arano’s (1988) proposal that, rather than ‘seclusion’, we…
Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 (review)
Reviewed by: Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 David L. Howell Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 By Tetsuo Najita. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 282. $50.00. In the days before banks people without much capital had few options if they needed to raise money, whether to finance an entrepreneurial venture or see themselves through a lean season. One technique, c…
The Social Life of Firearms in Tokugawa Japan
Guns were surprisingly common in the villages of Tokugawa Japan. This article examines the ‘social life’ of firearms, focusing particularly on the hinterland of Edo. It traces the evolution of institutions governing peasants' possession of guns and examines prevailing conceptions of the uses of firearms. Building on the work of Tsukamoto Manabu, it argues that for much of the period guns were perceived to be farm implements rather than weapons pe…
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Making "Useful Citizens" of Ainu Subjects in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands
Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth
The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Ethnicity and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Ethnic and racial discrimination in contemporary Japan is a problem of national identity. Japanese national identity, in turn, is the product of a historical process of state formation and re-formation that occurred over the course of several centuries within the context of East Asian geopolitics. Central to Japanese conceptions of national identity is a myth of ethnic homogeneity and cultural, even physiological, uniqueness. This myth links nati…
Capitalism from within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery
Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan
Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery
Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain, by Philip C. Brown
Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State
Journal Article AINU ETHNICITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE EARLY MODERN JAPANESE STATE Get access David L. Howell David L. Howell Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 142, Issue 1, February 1994, Pages 69–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/142.1.69 Published: 01 February 1994
Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism
Proto-Industrialization has been defined as a transitional phase on the way to modern, factory industrialization, characterized by "the development of rural regions in which a large part of the population lived entirely or to a considerable extent from industrial mass production for inter-regional and international markets" (Kriedte, Medick, and Schlumbohm [KMS] 1981:6). This article will use protoindustrialization as a lens through which to reex…
Hard Times in the Kantō: Economic Change and Village Life in Late Tokugawa Japan
Things were not right in the Kantō region during the early nineteenth century. In his memoirs, Mastsudaira Sadanobu, architect of the Kansei Reforms, lamented the sorry state of the villages in Edo's hinterland:Much land throughout the Kantō is going to waste for want of cultivators. All the people of some villages have left for Edo, leaving only the headman behind. ... Many Kantō villagers are suffering great hardship. Babies are killed, the pop…
Ethnicity and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Ethnic and racial discrimination in contemporary Japan is a problem of national identity. Japanese national identity, in turn, is the product of a historical process of state formation and re-formation that occurred over the course of several centuries within the context of East Asian geopolitics. Central to Japanese conceptions of national identity is a myth of ethnic homogeneity and cultural, even physiological, uniqueness. This myth links nati…
Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State
Journal Article AINU ETHNICITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE EARLY MODERN JAPANESE STATE Get access David L. Howell David L. Howell Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 142, Issue 1, February 1994, Pages 69–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/142.1.69 Published: 01 February 1994
Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism
Proto-Industrialization has been defined as a transitional phase on the way to modern, factory industrialization, characterized by "the development of rural regions in which a large part of the population lived entirely or to a considerable extent from industrial mass production for inter-regional and international markets" (Kriedte, Medick, and Schlumbohm [KMS] 1981:6). This article will use protoindustrialization as a lens through which to reex…
Making "Useful Citizens" of Ainu Subjects in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery
Hard Times in the Kantō: Economic Change and Village Life in Late Tokugawa Japan
Things were not right in the Kantō region during the early nineteenth century. In his memoirs, Mastsudaira Sadanobu, architect of the Kansei Reforms, lamented the sorry state of the villages in Edo's hinterland:Much land throughout the Kantō is going to waste for want of cultivators. All the people of some villages have left for Edo, leaving only the headman behind. ... Many Kantō villagers are suffering great hardship. Babies are killed, the pop…
Hard Times in the Kantō: Economic Change and Village Life in Late Tokugawa Japan
Things were not right in the Kantō region during the early nineteenth century. In his memoirs, Mastsudaira Sadanobu, architect of the Kansei Reforms, lamented the sorry state of the villages in Edo's hinterland:Much land throughout the Kantō is going to waste for want of cultivators. All the people of some villages have left for Edo, leaving only the headman behind. ... Many Kantō villagers are suffering great hardship. Babies are killed, the pop…
Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism
Proto-Industrialization has been defined as a transitional phase on the way to modern, factory industrialization, characterized by "the development of rural regions in which a large part of the population lived entirely or to a considerable extent from industrial mass production for inter-regional and international markets" (Kriedte, Medick, and Schlumbohm [KMS] 1981:6). This article will use protoindustrialization as a lens through which to reex…
Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State
Journal Article AINU ETHNICITY AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE EARLY MODERN JAPANESE STATE Get access David L. Howell David L. Howell Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 142, Issue 1, February 1994, Pages 69–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/142.1.69 Published: 01 February 1994
Capitalism From Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery
Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain, by Philip C. Brown
The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Ethnicity and Culture in Contemporary Japan
Ethnic and racial discrimination in contemporary Japan is a problem of national identity. Japanese national identity, in turn, is the product of a historical process of state formation and re-formation that occurred over the course of several centuries within the context of East Asian geopolitics. Central to Japanese conceptions of national identity is a myth of ethnic homogeneity and cultural, even physiological, uniqueness. This myth links nati…
Capitalism from within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery
Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan
Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth
The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands
Making "Useful Citizens" of Ainu Subjects in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
The Social Life of Firearms in Tokugawa Japan
Guns were surprisingly common in the villages of Tokugawa Japan. This article examines the ‘social life’ of firearms, focusing particularly on the hinterland of Edo. It traces the evolution of institutions governing peasants' possession of guns and examines prevailing conceptions of the uses of firearms. Building on the work of Tsukamoto Manabu, it argues that for much of the period guns were perceived to be farm implements rather than weapons pe…
Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 (review)
Reviewed by: Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 David L. Howell Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750–1950 By Tetsuo Najita. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 282. $50.00. In the days before banks people without much capital had few options if they needed to raise money, whether to finance an entrepreneurial venture or see themselves through a lean season. One technique, c…
Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868
Since the early 1980s, nearly every account of Japanese foreign relations during the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) has started with talk of a paradigm shift, away from a secluded Japan to one deeply engaged with its neighbors in East Asia. The works that prompted this reevaluation of Tokugawa Japan’s place in the world include Tashiro’s (1981, 1982) studies of trade and diplomacy with Korea; Arano’s (1988) proposal that, rather than ‘seclusion’, we…
Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
The apparent inevitability of Tokugawa Japan’s opening to the West in 1854 has naturalized the story of how a series of overtures from the late eighteenth century onward culminated in Commodore Matthew Perry’s successful mission. This essay proposes to disrupt that teleology through an examination of the differing responses of officials and commoners to a minor incident in 1824, which brought English whalers into contact with ordinary Japanese. T…
Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan
Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan
This chapter focuses on the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state, and examines the social status. Inner boundaries separated the core polity from the dependent yet autonomous peripheries of Japan, while less well-defined outer boundaries set the peripheries apart from the non-Japanese world. The core polity's inner boundaries linked the overlapping internal geographies of shogunate, domains, temple grounds, and outcaste territories into …
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
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