Yasuhiro Makimura

Yokohama and the Silk Trade (eBook, ePUB)

How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan's eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations for Japan's prewar industrial development in the late nineteenth century and was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498555609
• Artikelnr.: 48423144

Autorenporträt

Yasuhiro Makimura is associate professor of history at Iona College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Early Modern Japanese Economy
Chapter 2: The Failure of the Tempo Reforms and the Opening of Yokohama
Chapter 3: The First Merchant of Yokohama
Chapter 4: Bakumatsu Japan's Trade and Yokohama's Place in that Trade
Chapter 5: Yokohama and its Hinterland
Chapter 6: The Producers of Eastern Japan