1. Rethinking Rural Japan Part 1: The Nineteenth Century: The Establishment of the Diversified Rural Economy 2. Rural Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century 3. The Rural Economy and the Household 4. Power, Policy and Resistance in the Nineteenth-Century Countryside Part 2: The Agrarian Transition, 1890-1920 5. The Rural Sector and Urban Industrialization 6. The Household and the Village in Transition 7. The Agrarian Question: The Rural Economy and the State Part 3: The Inter-War Years: Crisis and Modernization 8. The ‘Rural Problem’ of the Inter-War Period 9. The Rural Household and the Agricultural Adjustment Problem 10. The Rural Dream 11. Conclusion
University of Leeds, UK
'Francks challenges the image of Japanese farmers as victims of
industrialization. Applying the tools and concepts devised for
analyzing economic development in the contemporary Third World and
other micro-level research, she portrays them as post-peasant
small-scale producers who exploit both the knowledge of their
agricultural environment and whatever scope their household
resources allows them for securing and improving their
livelihoods.' - Reference & Research Book News'Useful and thorough
book...I would happily assign this one to my students.' - Monumenta
Nipponica'Penelope Francks has written a fine overview of the
history of Japanese agriculture from the late Edo period until
1945. Drawing on a wide variety of English and Japanese-language
secondary sources, she has made important contributions to our
understanding of modern Japan, and of its economic and rural
development.''A reader who wants to read a synthesis of Japanese
agricultural development from 1800 to the Second World War, that
is, just before and during Japan’s prewar industrialization, can do
no better than turn to this book.'- Economic History Society 2007,
Economic History Review, 60, 1 (2007)
'as a reference work on the many strands of scholarship on rural
Japan - political, social and cultural as well as economic - this
book is invaluable... because of its readability and wide reach,
the book is as useful for students of social or political history
as it is for economic historians' - Simon Partner, Journal of
Japanese Studies'Francks challenges the image of Japanese farmers
as victims of industrialization. Applying the tools and concepts
devised for analyzing economic development in the contemporary
Third World and other micro-level research, she portrays them as
post-peasant small-scale producers who exploit both the knowledge
of their agricultural environment and whatever scope their
household resources allows them for securing and improving their
livelihoods.' - Reference & Research Book News'Useful and thorough
book...I would happily assign this one to my students.' - Monumenta
Nipponica'Penelope Francks has written a fine overview of the
history of Japanese agriculture from the late Edo period until
1945. Drawing on a wide variety of English and Japanese-language
secondary sources, she has made important contributions to our
understanding of modern Japan, and of its economic and rural
development.''A reader who wants to read a synthesis of Japanese
agricultural development from 1800 to the Second World War, that
is, just before and during Japan’s prewar industrialization, can do
no better than turn to this book.'- Economic History Society 2007,
Economic History Review, 60, 1 (2007)
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