Yokohama and the silk trade : how Eastern Japan became the primary economic region of Japan, 1843-1893 / Yasuhiro Makimura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makimura, Yasuhiro, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Silk industry--Japan--Yokohama-shi--History--19th century.

Silk industry.

Japan--Commerce--History--19th century.

Japan.

Japan--Economic conditions--1600-1868.

Japan--conomic conditions--1868-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan's eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations for Japan's prewar industrial development in the late nineteenth century and was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The early modern Japanese economy

The failure of the temp? : reforms and the opening of Yokohama

The first merchant of Yokohama

Bakumatsu Japan's trade and Yokohama's place in that trade

Yokohama and its hinterland

The producers of Eastern Japan

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Japan's exports and imports since 1860

Appendix 2: Exports in silk goods and tea, with total exports

Appendix 3: Exports in cotton goods, copper, and rice, with total exports

Appendix 4: Each export good as a percentage of total exports

Bibliography

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-5560-8