Author: Yasuhiro Makimura Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498555608 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 277
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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.
Author: Haru Matsukata Reischauer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674788015 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
This extraordinary family account begins with the author's two illustrious grandfathers: one, a provincial samurai who became a founding father of the Meiji government; the other, a scion of a wealthy and enterprising peasant family who almost single-handedly developed the silk trade with America.
Author: Kevin C. Murphy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134433972 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 285
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Explores the interactions of 19th century American merchants with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan.
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