Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery/

Main Author: Howell, David Luke
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.
Contents: 1. Commercialization, Proto-Industrialization, and Capitalism -- 2. Not Quite Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Contract-Fishery System --3. The Capitalist Transformation -- 4. The Institutions of a Capitalist Fishery -- 5. Capitalism and Immiseration -- 6. A Right to Be Rational:Karafuto, 1905-1935 -- 7. Conclusion: Traditional Industry andIndigenous Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
Physical Description:xiv, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:0520086295