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: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; 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: value: Rethinking rural Japan; value: The nineteenth century : the establishment of the diversified rural economy; value: Introduction; value: Rural economic growth in the nineteenth century; value: The rural economy and the household; value: Power, policy and resistance in the nineteenth-century countryside; value: The agrarian transition, 1890-1920; value: The rural sector and urban industrialization; value: The household and the village in transition; value: The agrarian question : the rural economy and the state; value: The inter-war years : crisis and modernization; value: The 'rural problem' of the inter-war period; value: The rural household and the agricultural adjustment problem; value: The rural dream; value: Conclusion.