Middlemen of Modernity - Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan

About the author

Christopher Craig is associate professor of Japanese history in the Department of Innovative Japanese Studies at Tohoku University.

Summary

With a state focused more on the goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell to local elites in villages across Japan to bring rice production into the modern era. This book explores these elites, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Craig
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780824886257
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8625-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration