Fabian Drixler: 1 book

Book cover of Mabiki

Mabiki

Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950

by Fabian Drixler
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013

This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and...
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