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Native Sources Of Japanese Industrialization 1750 1920
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Book Synopsis Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 by : Thomas Carlyle Smith
Download or read book Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 written by Thomas Carlyle Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Book Synopsis Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 by : Thomas C. Smith
Download or read book Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 written by Thomas C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 by : Thomas Carlyle Smith
Download or read book Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 written by Thomas Carlyle Smith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 by : Thomas Carlyle Smith
Download or read book Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 written by Thomas Carlyle Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Book Synopsis Toxic Archipelago by : Brett L. Walker
Download or read book Toxic Archipelago written by Brett L. Walker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.
Book Synopsis The Japanese Experience by : W. G. Beasley
Download or read book The Japanese Experience written by W. G. Beasley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day and of a society and culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times until the 12th century. 35 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 by : Gail Lee Bernstein
Download or read book Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 written by Gail Lee Bernstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-07-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.
Book Synopsis The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 by : Kären Wigen
Download or read book The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 written by Kären Wigen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Japan. Using methods drawn from historical geography and economic development, Wigen maps the valley's changes—from a region of small settlements linked in an autonomous economic zone, to its transformation into a peripheral part of the global silk trade, dependent on the state. Yet the processes that brought these changes—industrial growth and political centralization—were crucial to Japan's rise to imperial power. Wigen's elucidation of this makes her book compelling reading for a broad audience.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Japanese History by : William M. Tsutsui
Download or read book A Companion to Japanese History written by William M. Tsutsui and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
Book Synopsis The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy by : Christopher Howe
Download or read book The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy written by Christopher Howe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many in the West, the emergence of Japan as an economic superpower has been as surprising as it has been sudden. After its defeat in World War II, Japan hardly appeared a candidate to lead industrialized nations in productivity and technological innovation, and the "Japanese miracle" is often explained as the result of U.S. aid and protection in the postwar years. In The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy, Christopher Howe locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events tnat occurred well before 1945. In this revisionist account, Howe traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries to show that the Japanese mastery of trade with the outside world began as long ago as the sixteenth century, with Japan's first contact with European trading partners. Although profitable, this early contact was so destabilizing that the Japanese leadership soon restricted foreign trade mainly to Asian partners. From the early seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries, Japan developed in relative isolation. Though secluded from the scientific and economic revolutions in the West, Japan proved adept at finding novel solutions to its own problems, and its economy grew in size, diversity, and technological and institutional sophistication. By the nineteenth century, when contacts with the West were reestablished. Japan had developed a remarkable capacity to absorb foreign technologies and to adapt and create new institutions, while retaining significant elements of its traditional system of values. Most importantly, Japan's long-standing reliance on its own ingenuity to solve problems continued to flourish. This tradition, born of necessity, is the most important foundation for Japan's current position as a world economic power.
Book Synopsis The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization by : Masayuki Tanimoto
Download or read book The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization written by Masayuki Tanimoto and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development", focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" factors. Japanese industrialization has often been described as the process of transferring or importing technology and organization from Western countries. Recent research has, however, shown that economic development had already begun in pre-modern period (Tokugawa-era) in Japan. This economic development not only prepared Japan for the transfer from the West, but also formed the basis of the particular industrialization process which paralleled transplanted industrialization in modern Japan. The aim of the volume is to demonstrate this aspect of industrialization through the detailed studies of so-called "indigenous" industries. This collection of papers looks at the industries originating in the Tokugawa-era, such as weaving, silk-reeling and pottery, as well as the newly developed small workshops engaged in manufacturing machinery, soap, brash, buttons, etc. Small businesses in the tertiary sector, transportation and commerce, are also observed. Available for the first time in English, these papers shed new light on the role of "indigenous development" and our understanding of the dualistic character of Japan's economic development.
Book Synopsis The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan by : Conrad D. Totman
Download or read book The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan written by Conrad D. Totman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume surveys three hundred years in the history of the lumber industry in early modern (Tokugawa) Japan. In earlier works, Conrad Totman examined environmental aspects of Japan's early modern forest history; here he guides readers through the inner workings of lumber provision for urban construction, providing a wealth of detail on commercial and technological systems of provision while focusing on the convoluted commercial arrangements that moved timber from forest to city despite exceptionally severe environmental and financial obstacles. Based on scrupulous scholarship in the vast Japanese secondary literature on forest history, The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan brings to light materials previously unavailable in English and synthesizes these within a thoughtful ecological framework. Its penetrating examination of the patterns of cooperation and conflict throughout the industry adds significantly to the scholarly corpus that challenges the stock image of Tokugawa rulers and merchants as social enemies. Instead it supports the view of those who have noted the interdependent character of political and economic elites and the long-term strengthening of rural sectors of society vis-a-vis urban sectors.
Book Synopsis A History of Japan, 1582-1941 by : L. M. Cullen
Download or read book A History of Japan, 1582-1941 written by L. M. Cullen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.
Book Synopsis Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands by : Victor Lieberman
Download or read book Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands written by Victor Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.
Book Synopsis Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space by : D. Galvan
Download or read book Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space written by D. Galvan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
Book Synopsis Britain and Japan by : Kenneth D. Brown
Download or read book Britain and Japan written by Kenneth D. Brown and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study, Brown identifies moments where this affinity between allusion and the uncanny is used by writers to generate a particular textual charge, where uncanny elements are used to flag patterns of allusion and to point to the haunting presence of an earlier work. A Familiar Compound Ghost traces the subtle patterns of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys to the underworld.
Book Synopsis Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History by : Gareth Austin
Download or read book Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History written by Gareth Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.
