Thomas M. Buoye

Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780521640459
• ISBN-10: 0521640458
• Artikelnr.: 21122825

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps, figures, and tables
List of Qing dynasty emperors' reign dates
List of weights and measures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Economic change, social conflict, and property rights
2. 'Population increases daily': economic change during the eighteenth century
3. 'As before each manage their own property': boundary and water-rights disputes
4. 'Crafty and obdurate tenants': redemption, rent defaults, and evictions
5. Temporal and geographic distributions of property-rights disputes in Guangdong
6. Violence north, west, and south: property-rights disputes in Shandong, Sichuan, and Guangdong
7. 'You will be rich but not benevolent': changing concepts of legitimacy and violent disputes
8. Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.