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Thomas C. Smith
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920
A Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-06293-1
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"Composed of ten essays written by one of America's leading scholars on the history of Japan, this collection provides a very valuable introduction to the 19th-century modernization of that nation."—M. Blackford, Choice
"All of these essays are not only informative and analytically compelling, but raise important questions designed to encourage further inquiries. . . . As a collection, these articles reflect both a sensitivity to Japanese social character and a sophisticated challenge to universal truths about modern industrial societies and human relations."—William B. Hauser, Monumenta Nipponica
"All of these essays are not only informative and analytically compelling, but raise important questions designed to encourage further inquiries. . . . As a collection, these articles reflect both a sensitivity to Japanese social character and a sophisticated challenge to universal truths about modern industrial societies and human relations."—William B. Hauser, Monumenta Nipponica
"This collections of essays is one of a kind, an outstanding exposition of a set of interpretations and body of information richly illuminating of a first-class scholarly mind."—Conrad Totman, Yale University
Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays are indispensable reading for anyone interested in Japan's remarkable history.