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Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 / Thomas C. Smith.
LIBRA HC462 .S617 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle), 1916-2004.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Economic conditions.
- Japan.
- Economic conditions.
- Japan--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Industries--Japan--History.
- Industries.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1988]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Ōkura Nagatsune and the technologists
- Peasant time and factory time in Japan
- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920.
- Notes:
- "A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Series t.p.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520058372
- 0520062930
- OCLC:
- 16901375
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