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Klappentext This collection of Akira Hayami's writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. It contains twenty key essays in five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Foreword by Osamu Saito: Akira Hayami: a historiographical appraisal; Introduction by Akira Hayami; PRELUDE: Philip II and Toyotomi Hideyoshi; Francisco Xavier and Japan; PART I: Tokugawa Japan; 1. Japan: Sixteenth! Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 2. A Great Transformation: Social and Economic Change in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Japan; 3.Japan in the Eighteenth Century: Demography and Economy; 4. Industrial Revolution versus Industrious Revolution; PART II: Demography through Telescope; 5. The Population at the Beginning of the Tokugawa Period - An Introduction to the Historical Demography of Pre-industrial Japan; 6. Population Trends in Tokugawa Japan: 1600-1868; 7. Population Growth in Pre-industrial Japan; 8. Population and Family in Crisis: A Study of Northeastern Japan in the Late Eighteenth Century; 9. Japan in Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji; PART III: Demography through Microscope; 10. The Shumon aratame-cho: Japan's Population Registers; 11. Demographic Aspects of a Village in Tokugawa Japan; 12. Class Differences in Marriage and Fertility among Tokugawa Villagers in Mino Province; 13. Labor Migration in a Pre-industrial Society: A study tracing the Life Histories of the Inhabitants of a Village; PART IV: Family and Household; 14. Size of Household in a Japanese County throughout the Tokugawa Era; 15. Regional Diversity in Demographic and Family Patterns in Pre-industrial Japan; 16. Population and Household Dynamics: A Mountainous District in Northern Japan in the Shumon aratame-cho of Aizu! 1750-1850; PART V: Epilogue; 17. Another Fossa Magna: Proportion Marrying and Age at Marriage in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan; 18. Illegitimacy in Japan; 19. Koji Sugi and the Emergence of Modern Population Statistics in Japan: the Influence of German Statistics; Sources; Index ...
