State, peasant, and merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
By: Christopher Mills Isett.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780804752718
Subjects: Peasantry -- China -- Manchuria -- History; Peasantry -- China -- Manchuria -- Social conditions; Political leadership -- China -- Manchuria -- History; Social structure -- China -- Manchuria -- History; Manchuria (China) -- Politics and government; China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: Asserting hegemony over the homeland : dynastic objectives and the creation of an agrarian order, 1644-1700; title: Manchuria's place in the early imperial project; title: The agrarian order in late seventeenth-century Manchuria; title: The state in the village; title: Peasant and state in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: The state and agrarian property relations; title: The social basis of the transformation of agrarian Manchuria; title: Wage labor and wage relations in Qing Manchuria; title: State, trade, and peasant agriculture: developments in the Manchurian economy; title: Household formation, property division, and agricultural change in the peasant economy; title: The content and growth of the Manchurian trade, 1700-1860; title: State, merchant, and the organization of the Manchurian trade; title: Conclusion: critiques and alternative; title: Appendix A: population and cultivated area in Qing Manchuria; title: Appendix B: grain yields in the Qing and Republican eras; title: Notes; title: References and sources; title: Chinese glossary.