Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
Title Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 PDF eBook
Author Thomas Carlyle Smith
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 291
Release 1988
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0520062930

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"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

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
Title Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 PDF eBook
Author Thomas C. Smith
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1988
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9780520353107

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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.

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
Title Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 PDF eBook
Author Thomas Carlyle Smith
Publisher
Pages
Release 2005
Genre Industrialization
ISBN

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Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920

Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
Title Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920 PDF eBook
Author Thomas Carlyle Smith
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 296
Release 1988
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780520062931

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"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

The Japanese Experience

The Japanese Experience
Title The Japanese Experience PDF eBook
Author W. G. Beasley
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 338
Release 2000-08-31
Genre History
ISBN 9780520225602

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An authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day and of a society and culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times until the 12th century. 35 illustrations.

Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945

Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945
Title Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945 PDF eBook
Author Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 356
Release 1991-07-09
Genre History
ISBN 0520070178

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In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.

Toxic Archipelago

Toxic Archipelago
Title Toxic Archipelago PDF eBook
Author Brett L. Walker
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 306
Release 2011-07-01
Genre History
ISBN 0295803010

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Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.