Japan's Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gōnō
(Book #179 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Students of the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods have long recognized the critical role of rural elites (the gono ) in Japan's economic transformation, but the largely impressionistic and episodic scholarship on this pivotal class has created an image of rural elites as successful trailblazers of industrial society. Through a close examination of economic trends and case studies of particular families, this study demonstrates that Japan's protoindustrial economy was far more volatile than portrayed in most studies to date. Few rural elites survived the competitive and unstable climate of this era. Onerous exactions, interregional competition, market volatility, and succession problems propelled many wealthy families into steep decline and others into drastic shifts in the focus of their businesses.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:067447290X
ISBN13:9780674472907
Release Date:June 1999
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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