Smith, Thomas C.

Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920 / Thomas C. Smith - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1988 - ix, 278 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Series t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West -- The land tax in the Tokugawa period -- Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan -- Japan's aristocratic revolution -- The discontented -- "Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period -- ŻOkura Nagatsune and the technologists -- Peasant time and factory time in Japan -- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920

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Industrialization--History--Japan


Japan--Social conditions
Japan--Economic conditions