A Time of Crisis - Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications for our understanding of both the war years and the postwar reconstruction. The reactions of inhabitants of rural areas to the depression shed new light on how average Japanese responded to the problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Riassunto

This study of Japan’s transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and Tokyo policymakers. Smith sheds light on how average Japanese responded to problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kerry Smith
• Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2003
• EAN: 9780674012776
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01277-6
• Pagine: 512
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 671 g
• Illustrazioni: 3 maps, 9 line drawings
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia