Thomas C. Smith <br/><br/>
Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 /  
Thomas C. Smith 
 - Berkeley, Calif.:  University of California Press,  c1988 
 - x, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23cm 
<br/><br/>Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West<br/>The land tax in the Tokugawa period<br/>Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan<br/>Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan<br/>Japan's aristocratic revolution<br/>The discontented<br/>"Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period<br/>Ōkura Nagatsune and the technologists<br/>Peasant time and factory time in Japan<br/>The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520062931 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic history<br/>Industrialization--Japan<br/>Japan Economic conditions<br/>Japan Social conditions
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>REF 330.952 Sm51