Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading econo

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the

"Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every