Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

Informationen zum Autor Thomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California! Berkeley. Klappentext "This collections of essays is one of a kind! an outstanding exposition of a set of interpretations and body of information richly illuminating of a first-class scholarly mind."-Conrad Totman! Yale University Zusammenfassung Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays are indispensable reading for anyone interested in Japan's remarkable history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West 2 The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period 3 Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan 4 Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan 5 Japan's Aristocratic Revolution 6 The Discontented 7 "Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period 8 Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists 9 Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan 10 The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920 Index

Product details

• Authors: Thomas C. Smith, Thomas Carlyle Smith, Smith Thomas Carlyle
• Assisted by: Thomas C. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.1989
• EAN: 9780520062931
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06293-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, macroeconomics, United States of America, USA, Microeconomics