The city as subject : Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka / / Jeffrey E. Hanes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911090112403321
• Autore: Hanes Jeffrey E. <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• ISBN: 9786612356315; 9780520926837; 0520926838; 9781282356313; 1282356313; 9781597345415; 1597345415
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Collana: Twentieth-century Japan
• Altri autori (Persone): SekiHajime <1873-1935.>
• Disciplina: 307.1/26/092; B
• Soggetti: Economists - Japan; Mayors - Japan; Osaka (Japan) Economic conditions; Japan Economic conditions 1918-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-333) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man -- 2. The People's National Economy -- 3. Class and Nation -- 4. Toward a Modern Moral Economy -- 5. A New Urbanism -- 6. The Livable City -- Notes -- 315 Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890's, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced study in Europe at the turn of the ; century, during which he engaged Marxism and later steeped himself in the exciting new field of social economics, Seki was transformed into a progressive. The social reformism of Seki and others had its roots in a transnational fellowship of progressives who shared the belief that civilized nations should be able to forge a middle path between capitalism and socialism. Hanes's sweeping study permits us not only to weave social progressivism into the modern Japanese historical narrative but also to reconceive it as a truly transnational movement whose impact was felt across the Pacific as well as the Atlantic.