Native Sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 / Thomas C. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle), 1916-2004.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industries--Japan--History.

Industries.

Japan--Economic conditions.

Japan.

Japan--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1988.

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:

0-520-35310-2

0-520-90874-0

0-585-33837-X

OCLC:

1414456215