Synopses & Reviews
Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays are indispensable reading for anyone interested in Japan's remarkable history.
Synopsis
"This collections of essays is one of a kind, an outstanding exposition of a set of interpretations and body of information richly illuminating of a first-class scholarly mind."Conrad Totman, Yale University
About the Author
Thomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West -- The land tax in the Tokugawa period -- Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan -- Japan's aristocratic revolution -- The discontented -- "Merit" as ideology in the Tokugawa period -- åOkura Nagatsune and the technologists -- Peasant time and factory time in Japan -- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920.