Critical Readings on the History of Industrialization in Modern Japan (3 Vols. Set)

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21229-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 1284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2427 g

Reihe: Critical Readings

The three volumes of this collection (Tokugawa Economy and Society, Meiji Industrialization, and Twentieth Century Japan) feature essays examining the economic and social transformation of Japan from the proto-industrial economy of the late Tokugawa Era to Japan’s twentieth-century emergence as one of the world’s great industrialized nations.

The first volume, Tokugawa Economy and Society, examines how the political economy of the Tokugawa Era was, despite political constraints designed specifically to hinder social and economic change, such that even before the decades of decline it is possible to find the proto-industrial roots of the modern era within Tokugawa economy and society.

The second volume, Meiji Industrialization, explores how the men who established the modern government of the Meiji Era (1868-1912) found fertile ground for the rapid industrialization they envisioned necessary for the defense of the nation. The emergent oligarchs of Meiji Japan implemented structural changes designed to foster the growth of industrial enterprises while weaning the samurai classes of their customary privileges. Their successes, and failures, laid the groundwork for a modern empire.

The final volume, Twentieth Century Japan, examines the century of industrialization that underpinned the rise of Imperial Japan, its disastrous invasion of Pacific Asia, and its unexpected emergence from the ashes of World War II to become one of the world’s great industrialized powers, which has since fascinated politicians and industrialists across the developing and developed world.

Zielgruppe

This book will be suitable for a general audience with an interest in economic and social history, or adoption for use by undergraduate and post-graduate courses in East Asian history, politics, and eonomics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerteis, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Gerteis, Christopher
Christopher Gerteis, Ph.D. (2001), is a lecturer in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he teaches the social and cultural history of Japan since 1600. He is author of Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). Dr Gerteis' current research investigates the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory in the twentieth century.

Christopher Gerteis, Ph.D. (2001), is a Lecturer of the History of Modern and Contemporary Japan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London where he teaches the social and cultural history of Japan. He is author of Gender Struggles: Wage-earning Women and Male-dominated Unions in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009). Dr Gerteis' current research investigates the intersection of consumer capitalism, industrial heritage and historical memory in the twentieth century.