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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanes, Jeffrey E., 1950-

Contributor:

Seki, Hajime, 1873-1935.

Series:

Twentieth-century Japan.

Twentieth-century Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seki, Hajime, 1873-1935.

Seki, Hajime.

Economists--Japan--Biography.

Economists.

Mayors--Japan--Biography.

Mayors.

Osaka (Japan)--Economic conditions.

Osaka (Japan).

Japan--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-333) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612356315

9780520926837

0520926838

9781282356313

1282356313

9781597345415

1597345415

OCLC:

475928372