Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893

ISBN-13: 9781498555593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 276 str.

Yasuhiro Makimura

Opis

This study provides a political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the role of Japan's eastern interior region and the port of Yokohama and argues that the growth of the silk industry was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.