Penelope Francks

The Japanese Consumer

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Produktbeschreibung

An alternative account of Japan's modern economic history from the perspective of the consumer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780521875967
• ISBN-10: 052187596X
• Artikelnr.: 26551448

Autorenporträt

Penelope Francks is an Honorary Lecturer in Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. Her recent publications include Rural Economic Development in Japan (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Japan and the history of consumption
2. Shopping in the city: urban life and the emergence of the consumer in Tokugawa Japan
3. Country gentlemen, ordinary consumption and the development of the rural economy
4. 'Civilising goods': consumption in the industrialising world
5. Living with modernity: the emerging consumer of the inter-war years
6. The electrical household: consumption and the economic miracle
7. New tribes and nostalgia: consumption in the late twentieth century and beyond
8. The Japanese consumer past and present.