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- Book Title
- Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary
- Publication Date
- 2017-06-15
- ISBN
- 9781498555593
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
1498555594
ISBN-13
9781498555593
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239650700
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Yokohama and the Silk Trade : How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843-1893
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Asia / Japan, Industries / Fashion & Textile Industry, Commerce, Economic Conditions, Modern / 19th Century
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Series
New Studies in Modern Japan Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2017-007450
Reviews
Yokohama and the Silk Trade is a rich and lively account of the political economy of foreign trade in Japan from the opening of the treaty ports to the early 1890s. Yasuhiro Makimura combines wonderful stories with a strong interpretive line in this important work. At its center is a series of lively portraits of entrepreneurs whose careful network building and wild speculations helped to integrate the economy of eastern Japan at a time of rapid and unpredictable change., Makimura's attention to individual actors and the choices they faced is an effective tool for exploring the many contingencies that went into making the Japanese silk trade successful. . . ., Expertly utilizing diaries, letters, and other primary materials, Yasuhiro Makimura unravels here the ways in which Japanese merchants connected the hinterland with Yokohama and, from there, with the world market. By focusing on the critically important Japanese silk industry--on which we surprisingly have no full-length study in English--and by taking a novel regional approach, Makimura provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the start-up phase of Japan's modern economic development., "Makimura's attention to individual actors and the choices they faced is an effective tool for exploring the many contingencies that went into making the Japanese silk trade successful. . . ." -- American Historical Review "Makimura makes a strong case for taking a regional approach in explaining bakufu decision making before and immediately after Japan's opening and in tracing how the establishment of the international silk trade at Yokohama remade eastern Japan in the latter half of the nineteenth century. . . This book deserves a wide audience and should be read by anyone interested in economic geography, the role of the domestic political economy in Japan's opening, and the rise of eastern Japan's fortunes through the Yokohama silk trade." -- The Journal of Japanese Studies "Yokohama and the Silk Trade is an important study of the development of Japanese international trade and economic geography. . . . Yasuhiro Makimura's contribution is to show through a wealth of primary and secondary Japanese sources and a multi-sited analysis how Japanese economic ascendancy was neither a predictable nor an inevitable outcome." -- Monumenta Nipponica "Expertly utilizing diaries, letters, and other primary materials, Yasuhiro Makimura unravels here the ways in which Japanese merchants connected the hinterland with Yokohama and, from there, with the world market. By focusing on the critically important Japanese silk industry--on which we surprisingly have no full-length study in English--and by taking a novel regional approach, Makimura provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the start-up phase of Japan's modern economic development." --Steven Ericson, Dartmouth College "The bakufu chose Yokohama, a tiny fishing village, as the place to negotiate with Commodore Perry in 1854, and built the port city of Yokohama in 1859. Treaties limited foreign trade to five open port cities, and Yokohama quickly became the pivot for raw silk exports of such high quality that Japanese raw silk came to dominate the global market. In this study, Yasuhiro Makimura vividly examines the drama of nineteenth-century Yokohama from various perspectives, including Japanese domestic politics, foreign policy, export trade, reinvestment, and technological development." --Yuzo Kato, Yokohama City University "Yokohama and the Silk Trade is a rich and lively account of the political economy of foreign trade in Japan from the opening of the treaty ports to the early 1890s. Yasuhiro Makimura combines wonderful stories with a strong interpretive line in this important work. At its center is a series of lively portraits of entrepreneurs whose careful network building and wild speculations helped to integrate the economy of eastern Japan at a time of rapid and unpredictable change." --David L. Howell, Harvard University, The bakufu chose Yokohama, a tiny fishing village, as the place to negotiate with Commodore Perry in 1854, and built the port city of Yokohama in 1859. Treaties limited foreign trade to five open port cities, and Yokohama quickly became the pivot for raw silk exports of such high quality that Japanese raw silk came to dominate the global market. In this study, Yasuhiro Makimura vividly examines the drama of nineteenth-century Yokohama from various perspectives, including Japanese domestic politics, foreign policy, export trade, reinvestment, and technological development., Yokohama and the Silk Trade is an important study of the development of Japanese international trade and economic geography. . . . Yasuhiro Makimura's contribution is to show through a wealth of primary and secondary Japanese sources and a multi-sited analysis how Japanese economic ascendancy was neither a predictable nor an inevitable outcome., Makimura makes a strong case for taking a regional approach in explaining bakufu decision making before and immediately after Japan's opening and in tracing how the establishment of the international silk trade at Yokohama remade eastern Japan in the latter half of the nineteenth century. . . This book deserves a wide audience and should be read by anyone interested in economic geography, the role of the domestic political economy in Japan's opening, and the rise of eastern Japan's fortunes through the Yokohama silk trade.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
330.952031
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
HF3826.M27 2017
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