... Land reorganization project Ōta Chōfu Jahana Noboru Female weavers Reform of Old Customs Movement ...

..., but was actually a fight over who had the right to control and manage the prefecture’s human and material resources. Land reorganization project Ōta Chōfu Jahana Noboru Female weavers Reform of Old Customs Movement ...

... This chapter investigates the significance of the Miyako Island Peasantry Movement, which unfolded between 1893 and 1895. This movement, which forced the Japanese state to revise its Preservation of Old Customs Policy is read as an act of refusal that exposed the function that the discourse...

...From Indian Insurgency to Creole Independence Mounting fiscal exactions by the Bourbon Crown in the 1770s generated escalating unrest in the southern Andes among Indians, mestizos, and creoles. One of the most resented reforms was the introduction of customs houses designed to control trade...