The Rise of Asia: Economics, Society and Politics in Contemporary Asia

ISBN-13: 9780333658321 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 544 str.

F. Tipton

Opis

The shifting balance of economic power away from Western Europe and the United States and towards East and Southeast Asia - firstly Japan, then the small 'Tiger' economies, and now the larger nations of Southeast Asia and China, the potential 'Dragons' - has provoked anger, dismay and a search for the 'secrets' of growth and for 'lessons' to be learned. The Rise of Asia brings together recent scholarship analysing the process of economic, social and political development in East and Southeast Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments.- List of Tables.- Prologue: East and Southeast Asia and the Changing Balance of World Economic Forces.- The Age of Colonialism and Imperialism: From an External to an Internal Dynamic.- The Role of Markets: Peasant Families, Commercial Agriculture and Protoindustrialisation.- Asian Elites in the Economy and in Politics.- The First Asian Tiger: The Transformation of Japan.- Asian Economies, the International Economy and Development in the Interwar Era.- Japanese Imperialism and the Pacific War.- Asian Nationalism.- Economics, Politics and Asian Development in the Postwar World.- How much is there to Share? Population, Resources and Productivity.- The Dark Side: Women in Asian Development.- The Developmental State in Asia: Japan and the Four Tigers.- New Tigers, New Dragons, New Giants? The State and Development in China and Southeast Asia..- Epilogue: Can Growth Continue?.- Bibliography.

O autorze

FRANK B. TIPTON is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Sydney.