Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415115018 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 272 str.

John Lathan; A. J. H. Latham

Opis

Much has been made of the post-war Japanese economic miracle. However, the origins of this spectacular success and its effect on the region can actually be traced back to an earlier period of Asian history. In Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy, the authors examine the factors which contributed to the period of major industrialization from 1870 to 1940. They trace the roots of this growth back to 17th-century rivalry between Japan and China and describe how this acted as a spur to the expansion of Japanese manufacturing skills. They go on to examine how the development of the Asian market was an important pre-condition of Japanese economic growth but was, in turn, fostered by that growth. The volume comprises nine chapters by eminent economic historians. While the style is non-technical, details are backed up by diagrams and graphs. Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy offers a guide to the origins of economic dynamism in the Pacific Rim. Latham has also published Decline and Recovery in Britain's Overseas Trade 1873-1914, with Platt and Ranald (Macmillan, 1993); and The Market in History, with Anderson (Croom Helm, 1986).

Spis treści

A.J.H. Latham University College of Swansea, Heita Kawakatsu Waseda University, Japan, Chumei Ho Field Museum of Natural History, USA, Takeshi Hamashita University of Tokyo, Eichi Motomo Tokyo University of Fisheries, Japan, Hajime Kose Tokyo University, Japan, Sakeae Tsunoyama Nara Sangyo University, Japan, Peter Schran University of Illinois, USA

O autorze

Heita Kawakatsu, John Latham