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Mabiki: infanticide and population growth in eastern Japan, 1660-1950
Fabian Franz Drixler
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page x)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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A Note on Conventions (page xvii)
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1. Introduction: Contested Worldviews and a Demographic Revolution (page 1)
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PART I. THE CULTURE OF LOW FERTILITY, CA. 1660-1790
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2. Three Cultures of Family Planning (page 25)
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3. Humans, Animals, and Newborn Children (page 47)
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4. Infanticide and Immortality: The Logic of the Stem Household (page 61)
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5. The Material and Moral Economy of Infanticide (page 69)
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6. The Logic of Infant Selection (page 91)
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7. The Ghosts of Missing Children: Four Approaches to Estimating the Rate of Infanticide (page 109)
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PART II. REDEFINING REPRODUCTION: THE LONG RETREAT OF INFANTICIDE, CA. 1790-1950
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8. Infanticide and Extinction (page 129)
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9. "Inferior Even to Animals": Moral Suasion and the Boundaries of Humanity (page 138)
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10. Subsidies and Surveillance (page 158)
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11. Even a Strong Castle Cannot Be Defended without Soldiers: Infanticide and National Security (page 183)
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12. Infanticide and the Geography of Civilization (page 194)
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13. Epilogue: Infanticide in the Shadows of the Modern State (page 208)
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14. Conclusion (page 232)
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Appendix 1. The Own-Children Method and Its Morality Assumptions (page 245)
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Appendix 2. Sampling Biases, Sources of Error, and the Characteristics of the Ten Provinces Dataset (page 253)
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Appendix 3. The Villages of the Ten Provinces Dataset (page 261)
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Appendix 4. Total Fertility Rates in the Districts of the Ten Provinces (page 276)
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Appendix 5. Regional Infanticide Reputations (page 281)
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Appendix 6. Scrolls and Votive Tablets with Infanticide Scenes (page 285)
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Appendix 7. Childrearing Subsidies and Pregnancy Surveillance by Domain (page 287)
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Notes (page 289)
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Bibliography (page 353)
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Index (page 397)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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Population | 70.4 (2015): 815-817 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/44135461 |
JIH | 44.4 (2014): 567-568 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/537632 |
MN | 70.1 (2015): 141-145 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/596319 |
HJAS | 74.2 (2014): 385-392 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/578538 |
JJS | 40.2 (2014): 383-387 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/549046 |
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Published: c2013
Publisher: University of California Press
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- 9780520953611 (ebook)