Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 10855579-6
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hardcover in Fine DJ. Beige linen-grain cloth over boards, brown titles on spine. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; light dust spotting on text block edges; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete. 8vo, 190 pp; index, biblio. Seller Inventory # 19322
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with burgundy lettering; tan dust jacket with burgundy lettering and bw illustrations; ix, 190 pp. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The problem of method -- Tokugawa ideology -- Tokugawa reformism -- Historiographical perspective -- Rectification and myth -- The plight of the domain -- The Mito historiographical tradition -- Rectification of names -- Natural order through artifice -- The national essence -- History as entropy -- Eternal return through imperial ritual -- The need for action -- Reform as representation -- Demarcating the land -- Grounding the aristocracy -- Spreading the way -- The domain as microcosm -- Recruitment of commoners -- The Tenpo legacy -- The intrusion of national politics -- Education as ideology -- Assassination at Sakurada Gate -- Ritual and action in the Tengu insurrection -- Mobilization and oppression -- Pilgrimage to the origin -- New political space -- Coda: Mito ideology as text -- Gekibun (call to action). VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Seller Inventory # 184267