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Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885
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Description
This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata Masayoshi and Maeda Masana.
ISBN
9781403971111
Publication Date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York
Disciplines
Asian Studies | History | International Economics
Subject Areas
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Japan -- Economic policy -- 19th century; Capitalism -- Japan -- Religious aspects -- Confucianism -- History -- 19th century
Reviews
"[A] useful exploration of the development strategies pursued by nineteenth-century Satsuma and the early Meiji state." —Tom Havens, Journal of Japanese Studies
"Up to now, historians have asked about the origins of Japan's distinctive state-led economic system. John Sagers turns the question around and in a lucid, thought-provoking account asks how it was that samurai bureaucrats from the most feudalistic and command-oriented of regions, Satsuma, built a market-oriented economy. A great read!" —Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin, author of Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
"The first book-length study in English of official economic concepts and practices across the Meiji Restoration of 1868, this work makes a signal contribution to our understanding of Japan's transition to a modern capitalist economy. By documenting the indigenous sources of Meiji economic thinking, the author offers an important corrective to the standard view that after 1868 Japanese leaders drew inspiration almost exclusively from Western economic ideas and models. A welcome addition to the new wave of studies dealing with Japan's experience in the nineteenth century as a whole." —Steven Ericson, Dartmouth College
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Sagers, John H., "Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885" (2006). Linfield Authors Book Gallery. 6.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfauth/6
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