Yasuhiro Makimura

Yokohama and the Silk Trade

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This study provides a political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the role of Japan's eastern interior region and the port of Yokohama and argues that the growth of the silk industry was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in Modern Japan
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781498555593
• ISBN-10: 1498555594
• Artikelnr.: 47707874

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
Temp¿ 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