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Meiji 7-nen Seiban tōbatsu kaikoroku 明治七年生蕃討伐囘顧錄 [Memoirs Concerning the 1874 Campaign Against the Southern Barbarians] by OCHIAI, Taizō 落合泰藏

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Title: Meiji 7-nen Seiban tōbatsu kaikoroku 明治七年生蕃討伐囘顧錄 [Memoirs Concerning the 1874 Campaign Against the Southern Barbarians]
Author: OCHIAI, Taizō 落合泰藏
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three photographic plates (incl. a port. of the author) & two maps, all on glossy paper. 211 pp. 8vo, rebound in modern cloth. [Tokyo: Privately Printed by the Author], 1920. First edition, and very rare, of the memoirs of the Japanese campaign in Taiwan by the military doctor Ochiai (b. 1850); this book and his diary remain the best first-hand accounts of the medical aspects of this disastrous incursion. Using the pretense of avenging the murder of Okinawan fishermen by Taiwanese aborigines in 1871, the Meiji government decided to enlarge its sphere of influence - the first of many attempts - by sending an expeditionary force of more than 3000 soldiers and laborers to Taiwan in 1874. "Militarily, the expedition was a stunning success, as the heavily armed Japanese Army easily routed the brave but poorly-equipped aborigines...However, Japanese attempts to establish a permanent base in the area were soon thwarted by a series of epidemics, particularly typhus, dysentery and malaria. These events are graphically recounted in both the diary and memoirs of the army surgeon Ochiai Taizo, who later became superintendent of the Bureau of Military Medicine (gun-i ryo)... "The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 provides a classic example of the impact epidemics could have on military campaigns, as deaths from epidemics among the nearly 6,000 men who served were over 20 times higher than battlefield deaths. Even though the Japanese army's superior firepower ensured its tactical success against Taiwan's aboriginal tribes, the inability to adjust to a new environment and poor camp sanitation doomed to failure any attempt to establish a base in Taiwan, just as alien diseases and unclean army camps had doomed military campaigns throughout world history."-Paul R. Katz, "Germs of Disaster. The Impact of Epidemics on Japanese Military Campaigns in Taiwan, 1874 and 1895" in Annales de Démographie Historique (1996)-see the entirety of this wonderful article. Fine condition.

Abstract of an Act of Parliament...making more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of Correction by [Criminalizing Poverty]

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Title: Abstract of an Act of Parliament...making more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons and to Houses of Correction
Author: [Criminalizing Poverty]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: [London]: [N.P.], 1791. First edition. Broadside measuring 15 x 12.25 inches and printed to recto. Some light chipping and toning to edges, particularly to lower quarter of sheet; short closed tear with amateur tape repair to verso along upper right foldline. Pencil notation "1791" to lower verso. In all, a well preserved piece which is unrecorded by ESTC, OCLC, or the British Library. English Poor Laws went through several important shifts between the sixteenth century's decline in more traditional forms of church-based charitable assistance and the present revision of the late eighteenth century. "The dissolution of the monasteries in 1536-40, followed by the dissolution of religious guilds, fraternities, almshouses, and hospitals in 1545-49 destroyed much of the institutional fabric which had provided charity for the poor in the past" (Boyer). In the absence of these systems, local governments struggled to establish their own infrastructure for social welfare. "A compulsory system of poor relief was instituted during the reign of Elizabeth I" which provided some relief for "the elderly, widows, children, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed, or the underemployed" (Blaug); funded by a property tax called the "poor rare" parishes were to maintain three different groups at different rates ("able-bodied adults, children, and the elderly or non-able-bodied" (Boyer). By the late eighteenth century, social welfare saw a decline in popularity among the wider citizenry; and a number of mechanisms were put into place to deter individuals and families from seeking or obtaining aid. In addition to the 1723 Workhouse Test Act, which "empowered parishes to deny relief to any applicant who refused to enter a workhouse," several acts were passed between 1791-1795 with work or residency requirements designed to "selectively keep out economically undesirable migrants such as single women, older workers, and men with large families" (Boyer). The Act of Parliament clarified in this abstract is such an example. By defining as "Rogue or Vagabond" any "poor Person [who] shall not use proper Means to get Work," any person who excessively spent funds "in Alehouses or Places of Bad Repute," or anyone "wandering abroad and begging," the Act criminalized a wide swath of the community. Those labeled Rogue or Vagabond would be subject to corporal punishment, fines, imprisonment, or removal from the parish (a notable exception to the corporal punishment was "any Female" who "in no Case whatsoever shall such undergo the Punishment of Whipping"). Thus, by policing the financial and physical lives of the impoverished, the 1791 Act gave the government the ability either to control impoverished peoples or deny them aid if they resisted and asserted autonomy. It further trapped a wide number of people within a cycle generational poverty.

A Woman Of No Importance by Wilde, Oscar

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Title: A Woman Of No Importance
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good
Description: London: John Lane, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Publisher's full mauve cloth stamped in gilt, spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Very good. 154 pages. 27.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 with 16 pages of advertisements at end (dated March 1894), Cover gilt design florets by Charles Shannon considerably influenced by his lifetime partner Charles Ricketts, both of whom produced work for the Doves Press. MASON 364. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre, satirizing English upper-class society. Spine dulled, spine extremities creased, binding tight; a sound copy.

The Law of the Vultures by ALTMAN, Phyllis

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Title: The Law of the Vultures
Author: ALTMAN, Phyllis
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(-)
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. hardcover. very good(-). 206pp., 12mo, cloth, d.w. (cloth lightly worn at top and bottom of spine, d.w. chipped and worn). London: Jonathan Cape, (1954). Fourth impression. A very good(-) copy.

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