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OverviewNative 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas Carlyle SmithPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520062931ISBN 10: 0520062930 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 27 September 1989 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviews"""All of these essays are not only informative and analytically compelling, but raise important questions designed to encourage further inquiries. . . . As a collection, these articles reflect both a sensitivity to Japanese social character and a sophisticated challenge to universal truths about modern industrial societies and human relations.""--William B. Hauser, ""Monumenta Nipponica" All of these essays are not only informative and analytically compelling, but raise important questions designed to encourage further inquiries. . . . As a collection, these articles reflect both a sensitivity to Japanese social character and a sophisticated challenge to universal truths about modern industrial societies and human relations. --William B. Hauser, Monumenta Nipponica Author InformationThomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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