Rural Economic Development in Japan

From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Av Penelope Francks, UK) Francks, Penelope (University of Leeds

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In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II.Using theories and approaches derived from development studies and economic history the book describes the nineteenth-century development of a diversified, proto-industrial rural economy, focusing on the strategies employed by households as they sought to secure and improve their livelihoods. The book argues that rural people, through their ‘industrious revolution’, played an active part in determining the course of Japan’s agrarian transition and, eventually, the distinctive features of industrial Japan’s political economy, with the result that rural life still figures largely in the reality and imagination of contemporary Japan.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-05-17
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt610 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Antal sidor328
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415444064

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1. Rethinking Rural Japan Part 1: The Nineteenth Century: The establishment of the diversified rural economy 2. Rural Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century 3. The Rural Economy and the Household 4. Power, Policy and Resistance in the Nineteenth-Century Countryside Part 2: The Agrarian Transition, 1890-1920 5. The Rural Sector and Urban Industrialization 6. The Household and the Village in Transition 7. The Agrarian Question: The Rural Economy and the State Part 3: The Inter-War Years: Crisis and modernization 8. The ‘Rural Problem’ of the Inter-War Period 9. The Rural Household And The Agricultural Adjustment Problem 10. The Rural Dream 11. Conclusion

'Francks challenges the image of Japanese farmers as victims of industrialization. Applying the tools and concepts devised for analyzing economic development in the contemporary Third World and other micro-level research, she portrays them as post-peasant small-scale producers who exploit both the knowledge of their agricultural environment and whatever scope their household resources allows them for securing and improving their livelihoods.' - Reference & Research Book News'Useful and thorough book...I would happily assign this one to my students.' - Monumenta Nipponica'Penelope Francks has written a fine overview of the history of Japanese agriculture from the late Edo period until 1945. Drawing on a wide variety of English and Japanese-language secondary sources, she has made important contributions to our understanding of modern Japan, and of its economic and rural development.''A reader who wants to read a synthesis of Japanese agricultural development from 1800 to the Second World War, that is, just before and during Japan’s prewar industrialization, can do no better than turn to this book.'- Economic History Society 2007, Economic History Review, 60, 1 (2007)