Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery
ISBN: 9780520086296
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Asian: Northeast (Japan Korea);

Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Japan's reopening to the West to probe the indigenous origins of Japanese capitalism.

David L. Howell is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University.

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