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The Merchant′s Tale – Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

Autor Simon Partner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2020
In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner¿s history of Yokahama as a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan¿s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231182935
ISBN-10: 0231182937
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture


Notă biografică

Simon Partner is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (1999); Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (2004); and The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865¿1925 (2009).

Cuprins

List of Tables and Illustrations
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Out of Thin Air (1859¿1860)
2. Years of Struggle (1860¿1864)
3. Prosperity (1864¿1866)
4. Transformation (1866¿1873)
Conclusion: The Power of a Place
Tables
Notes
Bibliography
Index