The Economic History of Japan: 1600-1990: Volume 1
Subtitle: Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859 (The Economic History of Japan, 1660-1990)
Contributors: Akira Hayami (Editor); Osamu Saito (Editor); Ronald P. Toby (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 10, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780198289050
First sentence: When the Muromachi shogunate breathed its last in 1573, it was the culmination of a long process of disintegration at the center, and reorganization in the provinces.