Print version: Botsman, Dani. Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan. Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005] xiv, 319 pages ; 25 cm. ISBN 9780691130309
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-302) and index
Introduction -- Signs of order : punishment and power in the shogun’s capital -- Bloody benevolence : punishment, ideology, and outcasts -- The power of status : Kodenmacho jailhouse and the structures of Tokugawa society -- Discourse, dynamism, and disorder : the historical significance of the Edo stockade for laborers -- Punishment and the politics of civilization in Bakumatsu Japan -- Restoration and reform : the birth of the prison in Japan -- Punishment and prisons in the era of enlightenment -- Punishment, empire, and history in the making of modern Japan.