Maren Ehlers: Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese 'Northern Frontier'

Dr. Maren Ehlers (Associate Professor, History, UNC-Charlotte), presents: "Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese 'Northern Frontier,' 1855-1869.” 

Presented via Zoom - registration required. Please  go to the link https://zoom.us/j/91746748777 to register.

Ehlers is the author of Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. Honorable Mention, John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983878. Her research interests include the history of early modern and modern Japan, history of East Asia, history of poverty and poor relief, social history, history of social class, and local history.

Sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Asian Studies (CAS)