Japan’s Industrious Revolution Economic and Social Transformations in the Early Modern Period /

• Main Author: Hayami, Akira (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: History.; Economic growth.; Demography.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Economics.; Economic Growth.; History, general.; Family.

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and...