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Zusatztext "Excellent book." Informationen zum Autor Simon Partner! Associate Professor at Duke University! is author of Toshié: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan and Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (both from UC Press). Klappentext "The Mayor of Aihara brings to life in a concrete and accessible way key developments and processes affecting the Japanese countryside in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that a reader might encounter in general terms in a textbook on modern Japanese history. This work provides an unusually intimate and textured view of Japanese farmers and their changing world over an extended period of time, carefully setting the narrative in the context of larger trends in the social, political, and economic history of modern Japan. The result is a rich harvest of information on multiple dimensions of rural life from the perspective of an elite villager."—Steven J. Ericson, Dartmouth College Zusammenfassung Aizawa Kikutaro was born into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, an agricultural village specializing in wheat and silk. Taking the biography of this villager as its focus and incorporating details of life drawn from Aizawa's diary, this book chronicles the transformation of Hashimoto against the background of Japan's rapid industrialization. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Village Enters the Modern Era (1866 - 1885) Born in Troubled Times Building a New Nation Hardship and Protest 2. From Farm Manager to Independent Landowner (1885 - 1894) A Young Man of the Enlightenment Reaching Maturity in Momentous Times Toward Independence 3. For Village and Nation (1894 - 1908) The Nation Comes of Age Politics on the Kanto Plain The Mantle of Responsibility The Hour of Need The Railway Comes to Hashimoto 4. The Mayor of Aihara (1908 - 1918) Mayor of Aihara Technology and Change A Great Sadness 5. A World Transformed (1918 - 1926) An Unprecedented Economy A Modern Village The World Turned Upside Down The Family Patriarch Conclusion Did Hashimoto Ever Become "Modern"? Villagers in Control of Their Destiny? The Meaning of a Life Notes Bibliography Index ...
