Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

"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. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page ix) Introduction (page 1) 1. Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West (page 15) 2. The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period (page 50) 3. Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan (page 71) 4. Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan (page 103) 5. Japan's Aristocratic Revolution (page 133) 6. The Discontented (page 148) 7. "Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period (page 156) 8. Ōkura Nagatsune and the Technologists (page 173) 9. Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan (page 199) 10. The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920 (page 236) Index (page 271) Description based on print version record.