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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Socio-Economic Development in Modern Japan
• 1. Analyzing Japanese Economic History
• 2. Before the Formulation of a Socio-Economic History
• 3. The Formulation of a Economic Society
• 4. Economy and Society in the Edo Era
• 5. The Industrialization of Modern Japan.- Part II Characteristics of the Economic Society in the Edo Era.- Part III Economic Development in Modern Japan
• 6. Economic Development in Modern Japan
• 7. Industrious Revolution and Economic Development
• 8. Industrious Revolution v.s. Industrial Revolution.