Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy University of California Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

University of California Press, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2019

Oakland : University of California Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods"-defined in contraposition to market-mediated goods and goods provided through personal relations, such as kinship ties. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure building, and forestry management in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a benchmark from which consider the cases in Prussia, China, and England. Taking advantage of rich scholarship on the role of autonomous village and regional society in Japan's early modern history, the volume highlights the diverse approaches to providing public goods across societies, relativizing the discussion on the formation of fiscal state drawn from the experience in "advanced" Western Europe, and it constructs the beginnings of an early modern basis for forecasting the diversity in public-goods provision future into the modern and contemporary periods.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1. Toward the Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

Part I: Public Finance and Regional Society in Early Modern Japan

Introduction

2. From "Feudal" Lords to Local Notables: The Role of Regional Society in Public Goods Provision from Early Modern to Modern Japan

3. Samurai and Peasants in the Civil Administration of Early Modern Japan

4. Outsourcing the Lord's Finance: An Origin of Local Public Finance in Early Modern Japan

Part II: Coping with Poverty and Famine

5. Sanctions, Targetism, and Village Autonomy: Poor Relief in Early Modern Rural Japan

6. Coping with Risk in the Seventeenth Century: The First Age of the English Old Poor Law: A Regional Study

7. Coping with Poverty in Rural Brandenburg: The Role of Lords and State in the Late Eighteenth Century

8. Coping with Poverty and Famine: Material Welfare, Public Goods, and Chinese Approaches to Governance

Part III: Building Infrastructure

9. The Development of Civil Engineering Projects and Village Communities in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Japan

10. Rulers and Ruled in Flood Protection during the Eighteenth Century: The Prussian Example

11. Infrastructure Maintenance in the Jifu Region, Beijing Metropolitan Region during the Eighteenth Century

12. Provided for Public Welfare: Traffic Infrastructure and "The Bonum Commune Topos" with Examples from Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Brandenburg Electorate

Part IV: Managing the Forest

13. Lords' Forestry for People's Basic Needs: Evidence from Prussia's Royal Domains and Forests during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

14. The Role of Villagers in Domain and State Forest Management: Japan's Path from Tokugawa Period to the Early Twentieth Century

15. Forests as Commons in Early Modern China: An Analysis of Legal Cases

16. Public Goods and Economy in the Early Modern Era-New Perspectives on Modern Economies and Contemporary Environmental Concerns

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520303652

0520303652

OCLC:

1051776621

Publisher Number:

10.1525/luminos.63