Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 /

Thomas C. Smith

Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 / Thomas C. Smith - Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c1988 - x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23cm

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

When and how did Japanese industrialization begin? Why did industrialization begin much earlier in Japan than in other non-Western nations? What does the Japanese case add to our understanding of modern economic growth generally? This book address these questions by focusing sharply on the problems strategic to them

9780520062931


Economic history
Industrialization--Japan
Japan Economic conditions
Japan Social conditions

REF 330.952 Sm51

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