Rural economic development in Japan
Subtitle: from the nineteenth century to the Pacific War
By: Penelope Francks.
Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Agriculture and state -- Japan; Japan -- Rural conditions -- 19th century; Japan -- Rural conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking rural Japan; title: The nineteenth century : the establishment of the diversified rural economy; title: Introduction; title: Rural economic growth in the nineteenth century; title: The rural economy and the household; title: Power, policy and resistance in the nineteenth-century countryside; title: The agrarian transition, 1890-1920; title: The rural sector and urban industrialization; title: The household and the village in transition; title: The agrarian question : the rural economy and the state; title: The inter-war years : crisis and modernization; title: The 'rural problem' of the inter-war period; title: The rural household and the agricultural adjustment problem; title: The rural dream; title: Conclusion.