The Economic History of Japan: 1600-1990: Volume 1: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859

ISBN-13: 9780198289050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 438 str.

Osamu Saito; Ronald P. Toby; Akira Hayami

Opis

Written by leading Japanese scholars, this multi-volume series on modern Japanese economic history has been abridged and rewritten for a non-Japanese audience. It ranges from the time when a discernible consumer population began to form within cities, to the start of rapid industrialization.

Recenzje

Overall, this is a treasure trove of information for students of both Japanese and comparative economic development, and it is valuable for making the recent work of some of Japan's leading economic historians accessible to readers who do not know Japanese.

O autorze

Akira Hayami is Professor of Economics at Reitaku University, having previously held positions at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and Keio University. His previous publications include The Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan (University of Tokyo Press, 2001). Osamu Saitô is Professor of Japanese and Asian Economics, and Director at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. His previous publications include Asian Population History (OUP 2001) and Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth (Co-edited with T. Bengtsson, OUP 2000). Ronald P. Toby is Professor of History at the Department of History, University of Illinois. He has previously held visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, and Keio University, and has lectured at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton University Press, 1984).