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University of California Press

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

by Thomas C. Smith (Author)
Paperback
Price: $33.95 / £29.00
Publication Date: Sep 1989
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9780520062931
Trim Size: 6 x 9
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About the Book

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.

About the Author

Thomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1
Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West
2
The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period
3
Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan
4
Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan
5
Japan's Aristocratic Revolution
6
The Discontented
7
"Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period
8
Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists
9
Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan
10
The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920

Index

Reviews

"This collections of essays is one of a kind, an outstanding exposition of a set of interpretations and body of information richly illuminating of a first-class scholarly mind."—Conrad Totman, Yale University