Yokohama and the Silk Trade - How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan,

This study provides a political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the role of Japan's eastern interior region and the port of Yokohama and argues that the growth of the silk industry was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Early Modern Japanese Economy
Chapter 2: The Failure of the Temp¿ Reforms and the Opening of Yokohama
Chapter 3: The First Merchant of Yokohama
Chapter 4: Bakumatsu Japan's Trade and Yokohama's Place in that Trade
Chapter 5: Yokohama and its Hinterland
Chapter 6: The Producers of Eastern Japan

About the author

By Yasuhiro Makimura

Summary

This study provides a political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the role of Japan’s eastern interior region and the port of Yokohama and argues that the growth of the silk industry was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

Product details

• Authors: Makimura, Yasuhiro Makimura
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781498555593
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5559-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies in Modern Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous