Rural Economic Development in Japan

From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War

By:

Penelope Francks

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

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In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II. Using theories and approaches derived from development studies and economic history the book describes the nineteenth-century development of a diversified, proto-industrial rural economy, focusing on the strategies employed by households as they sought to secure and improve their livelihoods. The book argues that rural people, through their ‘industrious revolution’, played an active part in determining the course of Japan’s agrarian transition and, eventually, the distinctive features of industrial Japan’s political economy, with the result that rural life still figures largely in the reality and imagination of contemporary Japan.

Release date Australia

May 17th, 2007

Author

Penelope Francks

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

20 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

328

Series

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

ISBN-13

9780415444064

Product ID

11391599

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