The historical consumer : consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000 /
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Japan's Consumption History in Comparative Perspective / Penelope Francks Francks, Penelope, Janet Hunter Hunter, Janet 1
- Part I Gender, the Household and Consumption
- 2 The Role of Housework in Everyday Life: Another Aspect of Consumption in Modern Japan / Masayuki Tanimoto Tanimoto, Masayuki 27
- 3 Like Bamboo Shoots after the Rain: The Growth of a Nation of Dressmakers and Consumers / Andrew Gordon Gordon, Andrew 56
- 4 Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan / Helen Macnaughtan Macnaughtan, Helen 79
- Part II Tradition, Modernity and the Growth of Consumption
- 5 Japanese Modernisation and the Changing Everyday Life of the Consumer: Evidence from Household Accounts / Satoru Nakanishi Nakanishi, Satoru, Tomoko Futaya Futaya, Tomoko 107
- 6 Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan / Barak Kushner Kushner, Barak 127
- 7 Kimono Fashion: The Consumer and the Growth of the Textile Industry in Pre-War Japan / Penelope Francks Francks, Penelope 151
- 8 Reviving Tradition: Patients and the Shaping of Japan's Traditional Medicines Industry / Maki Umemura Umemura, Maki 176
- Part III Spaces and Pathways of Consumption
- 9 Getting on a Train: Railway Passengers and the Growth of Train Travel in Meiji Japan / Naofumi Nakamura Nakamura, Naofumi 207
- 10 People and Post Offices: Consumption and Postal Services in Japan from the 1870s to the 1970s / Janet Hunter Hunter, Janet 235
- 11 Mail-Order Retailing in Pre-War Japan: A Pathway of Consumption Before the Emergence of the Mass Market / Isamu Mitsuzono Mitsuzono, Isamu 259
- 12 From Corporate Playground to Family Resort: Golf as Commodity in Post-War Japan / Angus Lockyer Lockyer, Angus 284
- 13 History and the Study of Consumerism: A Historian of the West Looks to Japan / Beverly Lemire Lemire, Beverly 306.