The historical consumer : consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2012Description: xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24cmISBN:

9780230273665

Subject(s):

Cultural and social anthropology of Japan

DDC classification:

REF 306.30952 H62

Summary: Much of the existing writing on Japan's economic rise has concentrated on the production of goods, and has largely neglected the role of the consumers and users of the expanding output of Japanese businesses and workers. While historians of Europe and North America have opened up the 'world of goods' and its role in industrialisation and modernisation, Japan is often seen as having little consumption history of its own, distinct from Western paths of development. This volume seeks to change this picture, and brings together studies by Japanese, British and American historians that combine economic, social and cultural analysis of the distinctive historical pathways of consumption in Japan.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
	DONATION	LAPULAPU-CEBU INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE REFERENCE SECTION	Reference	REF 306.30952 H62 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Staff collection		005426

Much of the existing writing on Japan's economic rise has concentrated on the production of goods, and has largely neglected the role of the consumers and users of the expanding output of Japanese businesses and workers. While historians of Europe and North America have opened up the 'world of goods' and its role in industrialisation and modernisation, Japan is often seen as having little consumption history of its own, distinct from Western paths of development. This volume seeks to change this picture, and brings together studies by Japanese, British and American historians that combine economic, social and cultural analysis of the distinctive historical pathways of consumption in Japan.

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