LEADER 03724nam 22005415 450 001 9910136844003321 005 20220330174332.0 010 $a1-137-57673-1 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-57673-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907699 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-57673-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4722251 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907699 100 $a20161015d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJapan and the great divergence$b[electronic resource] $ea short guide /$fby Penelope Francks 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (VIII, 123 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6497 311 $a1-137-57672-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 330 $aThis text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as read that the industrial revolution was the product of some form of ?European superiority? dating back to at least early-modern times. In The Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz challenged this assumption on the basis of his evidence that parts of eighteenth-century China were as well placed as northern Europe to achieve sustained economic growth, thus igniting what has been called ?the single most important debate in recent global history?. Japan, as the only non-Western country to experience significant industrialisation before the Second World War, ought to provide crucial ? and intriguing ? evidence in the debate, but analysis of the Japanese case in such a context has remained limited. This work suggests ways of re-interpreting Japanese economic history in the light of the debate, so arguing that global historians and scholars of Japan have in fact much to say to each other within the comparative framework that the Great Divergence provides. Penelope Francks is now Honorary Fellow of the University of Leeds, UK, where she was previously Reader in Japanese Studies and taught for many years on the history and economy of Japan and the rest of East Asia. Her research interests lie in Japanese economic history, especially rural development and, more recently, the history of consumption. She has published a range of books and journal articles on these topics. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Economic History,$x2662-6497 606 $aEconomic history 606 $aEvolutionary economics 606 $aAsia?Economic conditions 606 $aEconomic History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W41000 606 $aInstitutional/Evolutionary Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W53010 606 $aAsian Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W45010 607 $aJapan$xEconomic conditions 607 $aJapan$xEconomic policy 615 0$aEconomic history. 615 0$aEvolutionary economics. 615 0$aAsia?Economic conditions. 615 14$aEconomic History. 615 24$aInstitutional/Evolutionary Economics. 615 24$aAsian Economics. 676 $a330.9 700 $aFrancks$b Penelope$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0124463 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136844003321 996 $aJapan and the Great Divergence$92289026 997 $aUNINA