Economic and Social Trends in Tokugawa Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3643815 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Broadbridge (University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 347-372 |
| Publication date | 1974-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00014670 |
| OpenAlex | W2016312752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article expresses some dissatisfaction with the state of interpretation of economic and social trends in Japan during the Tokugawa period from 1603 to 1867. At one time there was a universal view that the Tokugawa economy was stagnant and characterized by extreme oppression of the peasantry. This view has been demolished by the writings of, for example, T. C. Smith, E. S. Crawcour, S. Hanley, Kozo Yamamura and C. D. Sheldon. Yet, it is argued here, much confusion remains after a close examination of these and other works. Crawcour and Yamamura have shown that the financial crisis at the end of the period is closely associated with a sharp deceleration of the spread of commercial transactions, but it is at least arguable that the picture of 'a happy and prosperous peasantry' (which is, apparently, derived from T. C. Smith's description of a dynamic, expanding economy in the eighteenth century, with steady growth in agricultural productivity and increased urbanization) has been overdrawn
Aesthetics · Confusion · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Interpretation (philosophy · Oppression · Period (music · Political science · Productivity · State (computer science · Urbanization · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
The Population of Japan
The State and economic enterprise in Japan
The agrarian origins of modern Japan
Education in Tokugawa Japan
The economic development of Japan 1870 to 1920
The Population At The Beginning Of The Tokugawa Period
The Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan
Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan, 1873-1922
Agricultural Production and The Economic Development of Japan, 1873-1922
The Rise of The Merchant Class in Tokugawa Japan 1600-1868
The Development of a Credit System in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Industrialization in Two Systems
Feudalism in History
Pre-Modern' Merchants and Modernization in Japan
The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period
The Tokugawa Monetary System
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 1986 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |