Japan and the Great Divergence A Short Guide
This text offers an accessible guide to the ways in which our growing knowledge of development in early-modern and modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been taken as rea
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JAPAN AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE A Short Guide
Penelope Francks
Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Series Editor Kent Deng London School of Economics London, United Kingdom
Aim of the series Palgrave Studies in Economic History is designed to illuminate and enrich our understanding of economies and economic phenomena of the past. The series covers a vast range of topics including financial history, labour history, development economics, commercialisation, urbanisation, industrialisation, modernisation, globalisation, and changes in world economic orders.
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Penelope Francks
Japan and the Great Divergence A Short Guide
Penelope Francks East Asian Studies University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom
Palgrave Studies in Economic History ISBN 978-1-137-57672-9 ISBN 978-1-137-57673-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57673-6
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Note: for clarity, Japanese personal names are presented in Western order (family name last). Macrons are used to indicate long vowel sounds in Japanese, but are omitted in place names and other words typically written without them in English.
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CONTENTS
1
Introduction
Part I
The Great Divergence and Japan So Far
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2
The Great Divergence Debate
3
Explaining the Great Divergence
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4
Japan in the Great Divergence Debate: The Quantitative Story
31
Part II
The Japanese Case
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Introduction: Interpreting the Tokugawa Economy
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6
Resources, Trade, and Globalisation
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Institu
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