Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery

Author/Contributor(s):	Howell, David L
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	05/04/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Japan's reopening to the West to probe the indigenous origins of Japanese capitalism.