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020 _a9780520953611
020 _z9780520272439 (hbk. : alk. paper)
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aHB3651
_b.D75 2013
082 0 0 _a304.6/6809520903
_223
100 1 _aDrixler, Fabian Franz,
_d1978-
245 1 0 _aMabiki
_h[electronic resource] :
_binfanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950 /
_cFabian Drixler.
260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c[2013]
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (xvii, 417 pages :)
_billustrations, maps ;
490 0 _aAsia: local studies/global themes ;
_v25
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-395) and index.
505 0 _aList of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- A note on conventions -- Introduction : contested worldviews and a demographic revolution -- The culture of low fertility, ca. 1660/1790 -- Three cultures of family planning -- Humans, animals, and newborn children -- Infanticide and immortality : the logic of the stem household -- The material and moral economy of infanticide -- The logic of infant selection -- The ghosts of missing children : four approaches to estimating the rate of infanticide -- Redefining reproduction : the long retreat of infanticide, ca. 1790/1950 -- Infanticide and extinction -- "Inferior even to animals" : moral suasion and the boundaries of humanity -- Subsidies and surveillance -- Even a strong castle cannot be defended without soldiers : infanticide and national security -- Infanticide and the geography of civilization -- Epilogue : infanticide in the shadows of the modern state -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. The own-children method and its mortality assumptions -- Appendix 2. Sampling biases, sources of error, and the characteristics of the ten provinces dataset -- Appendix 3. The villages of the ten provinces dataset -- Appendix 4. Total fertility rates in the districts of the ten provinces -- Appendix 5. Regional infanticide reputations -- Appendix 6. Scrolls and votive tablets with infanticide scenes -- Appendix 7. Childrearing subsidies and pregnancy surveillance by domain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aJapan
_xSocial life and customs
_y1600-1868.
651 0 _aJapan
_xPopulation
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInfanticide
_zJapan
_xHistory.
650 0 _aFertility, human
_zJapan
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780520953611/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33762
_d33762