Publications

2017
Howell, David L.グローバル・ヒストリーのなかの近世日本—日本のイメージと「知」のつながりを中心に.” In Bessatsu kan 別冊 環 Edo-Meiji: Renzoku suru rekishi 江戸〜明治ー連続する歴史 , edited by Namikawa Kenji and Furuie Shinpei, 23:16–23. Tokyo: Fujiwara shoten, 2017. Publisher's Version Bessatsu Kan 23
Howell, David L. “From Nurturing to Protection in Nineteenth-Century Japan.” In Protection and Empire: A Global History, edited by Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, and Bain Attwood, 132–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Publisher's Version Protection and Empire: A Global History
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies” 77, no. 2 (2017). Full text on Project Muse Cover Image
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies” 77, no. 1 (2017). Full text on Project Muse Cover Image
2014
Howell, David L.Foreign Encounters and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies 40, no. 2 (2014): 295–327. Full Text on Project Muse
Howell, David L.Is Ainu History Japanese History?” In Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives, 101–16. Edited by Mark Hudson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark K. Watson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. Full Text on Project Muse
2013
Howell, David L.Fecal Matters: Prolegomenon to a History of Shit in Japan.” In Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power, 137–51. Edited by Ian J. Miller, Julia Adney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2013. Full Text on Project Muse
Howell, David L.Nihon kinseishi to ārii modan hisutorii: Jidai kubun to hikakushi no kanōsei [Japanese kinsei history and early modern history: Periodization and the possibility of comparative history].” Kokushigaku, no. 210 (2013): 98–122.
2012
Howell, David L. “Urbanization, Trade, and Merchants.” In Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, 356-365. Edited by Karl Friday. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2012. Purchase on Amazon Japan Emerging
2011
Howell, David L. “May Be Hazardous to Your Health (review essay).” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41, no. 1 (2011): 104-111. may_be_hazardous_to_your_health.pdf

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2010
Howell, David L. “Busō suru nōmin no naiyū to gaikan [Armed peasants’ troubles at home and problems abroad].” In Kōza Meiji ishin [Studies on the Meiji Restoration], 1:84-107. Edited by Kimura Naoya. Tokyo: Yūshisha, 2010. Purchase on Amazon Japan
2009
Howell, David L. “The Social Life of Firearms in Tokugawa Japan.” Japanese Studies 29, no. 1 (2009): 65-80. Japanese Studies website

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Shūhenshi kara zentaishi e: Chiiki to bunka [From peripheral history to holistic history: Region and culture]
Namikawa, Kenji, David L Howell, and Hidemichi Kawanishi, ed. Shūhenshi kara zentaishi e: Chiiki to bunka [From peripheral history to holistic history: Region and culture]. Osaka: Seibundō, 2009. Purchase on Amazon Japan
Howell, David L. “The Girl with the Horse-Dung Hairdo.” In Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II, 203-219. Edited by Jennifer Purtle and Hans Bjarne Thomsen. Chicago: Center for the Arts of East Asia at The University of Chicago and Art Media Resources, Inc. 2009. Purchase on Art Media Resources website looking_modern.jpg
2006
Howell, David L. “Bōryoku no kindaika [The modernization of violence].” In Nashonaru hisutorii o manabisuteru [Unlearning national history] (volume 1 of Rekishi no egakikata [Writing histories], 135-159. Edited by Sakai Naoki. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2006. Purchase on Amazon Japan

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