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Record Nr.

UNISA996247949003316

Autore

Smith Thomas C (Thomas Carlyle), <1916-2004.>

Titolo

Native Sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas C. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c1988

ISBN

0-520-35310-2

0-520-90874-0

0-585-33837-X

Descrizione fisica

ix, 278 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm

Soggetti

Industries - Japan - History

Japan Economic conditions

Japan Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Series t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West -- The land tax in the Tokugawa period -- Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan -- Japan's aristocratic revolution -- The discontented -- "Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period -- OĢ„kura Nagatsune and the technologists -- Peasant time and factory time in Japan -- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920.

Sommario/riassunto

Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays are indispensable reading for anyone interested in Japan's remarkable history.