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1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Wildly differing opinions; 1 Continuities and Changes; The importance of Tokugawa legacies; How wealthy and developed was Tokugawa Japan?; What changed during the period 1868-1937?; The Meiji Restoration as the beginning of a new Japan; 2 A Sovereign and Modern State; A non-Western country that became a colonizer rather than a (semi- )colony; A functioning modern state; Tokugawa legacies?; A centralized and integrated state; To what extent was Tokugawa Japan an integrated and centralized polity? |
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3 A Powerful State: Politics, Ideology, the Military and the BureaucracyThe concepts 'state power' and 'state capacity'; Political power; Tokugawa legacies; Ideological power; The military; Tokugawa legacies; The bureaucracy; Tokugawa legacies; 4 A Powerful State: The Economy; State property; Tokugawa legacies; State revenue; Land tax and agricultural development; Other public revenue; Tokugawa legacies: A tradition of high taxation; Continuities, reforms and real changes; 5 A Capitalist State, Friendly to Employers but Much Less so to Workers |
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Creating a capitalist society: What does capitalism mean?Tokugawa Japan as an anti-capitalist societal order; Institutionalising capitalism; A regulated and regulating capitalism; 6 A Developmental State; The intention to develop; A spending state; Or rather, an investing state; Tokugawa legacies?; A state focusing on physical and institutional infrastructure; An open and protective state; A clear break with the Tokugawa past; 7 A State Promoting Knowledge Transfer and Education; Seeking knowledge throughout the world; Tokugawa legacies? |
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Creating human capital: education, and some comments on health8 Some Comments on What (Supposedly?) Went Wrong; 9 A Brief Summary; Appendix I; Appendix II; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century. Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan's economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan's economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state's involvement was fundamental in Japan's economic 'catching up', he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds |
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Print version record |
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Economic development -- Japan -- History
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Economic development
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Japan -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069403
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Japan -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069409
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1350121681 |
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9781350121683 |
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9781350121690 |
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135012169X |
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