State Formation, Property Relations, & the Development of the Tokugawa Economy (1600-1868) / Edition 1

by Grace Kwon

Overview

Before the late 1960s, Japan historians characterized the Early Modern Japanese economy in waht are typical feudal terms. Considered backward and stagnant, it was argued that the economy eventually collapsed under the weight of its own internal limitations. This narrative has given way in the past two decades to a new interpretation in which Japan's pre-industrial economy is protrayed as one of substantive growth and qualitative change, the setting stage for modern development during the Meiji era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415933896
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2002
Series:	East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

The Market & Economic Historiography of Tokugawa Japan; Chapter 2 The Early Village & ItsTransformation; Chapter 3 Construction of Peasant Land Relations; Chapter 4 Social Change & Commercialization in the Periphery; Chapter 5 An Alternative Trajectory ofDevelopment: the Kinai; Chapter Six Epilogue;