Shusuke Ioku (University of Rochester), “Weapons of the Weak: Population Mobility and the Construction of the State in Early Modern Japan”

U.S. ET: June 19 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: June 20 (Friday), 9 – 10 AM Zoom Registration: Link Paper is available here. Authors: Shusuke Ioku (University of Rochester) Abstract: Throughout history, subjects’ exit threats have constrained state power, yet this mechanism has received far less scholarly attention than collective confrontational resistance. I address this […]