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Rural economic development in Japan : from the nineteenth century to the Pacific War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francks, Penelope, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 32.
Subjects:
Japan > Rural conditions > 19th century.
Japan > Rural conditions > 20th century.
Agriculture and state > Japan.
Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking rural Japan
  • The nineteenth century : the establishment of the diversified rural economy
  • Rural economic growth in the nineteenth century
  • The rural economy and the household
  • Power, policy and resistance in the nineteenth-century countryside
  • The agrarian transition, 1890-1920
  • The rural economy and urban industrialization
  • The household and the village in transition
  • The agrarian question : the rural economy and the state
  • The inter-war years : crisis and modernization
  • The 'rural problem' of the inter-war period
  • The rural household and the agricultural adjustment problem
  • The rural dream
  • Rural Japan rethought.