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Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

2002; University of British Columbia; Volume: 75; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4127311

1715-3379

Bill Sewell, Ian Inkster,

Japanese History and Culture

1. Prologue. Anxious visions in Meiji Japan Part I. The Beginnings 2. The dynamics of the Tokugawa economy (1603-1868) i: Pax Tokugawa - the 250 years peace ii: Economy and population iii: Moral economy - aspects of social structure iv: limited change v: Japan in context - Tokugawa dynamics and the 'Western model' 3. An outline of Meiji industrialisation (1868-1912) i: Economic performance ii: Japan in context iii: Interpretations iv: Synthesis v: Themes 4. The foreign influence i: Introduction ii: The long prelude iii: Screening the world iv: The moving frontier - Layers of influence v: Technology transfer: mechanisms vi: Technology transfer: case studies vii: Hakurai to Hakugaku: an interpretation of success 5. The state and economic development i: Introduction - the contested state ii: The costs of continuity iii: Strategy - the debate over foreign capital iv: Financing industrial change v: Education, training and technology vi: The state and the entrepreneur Part II. The Expansion of Japan 1912-1973 6. An outline of inter-war economic development (1912-1937) i: Economic performance ii: Japan in context iii: Interpretations iv: Synthesis v: Themes 7. Empire, war and occupation i: the 1920s ii: Depression outcomes iii: Empire and the economy iv: War v: Occupation and institutional innovation vi: Conclusions - the political economy of Japan 8. Recovery and growth in the Golden Age (1952-1973) i: Supergrowth: Japan in the Golden Age ii: Recovery iii: Economic growth iv: Industrial policy and technology transfer v: Turning points Part III. Modern Japan 9. An outline of recent economic change i: Economic performance ii: Shocks and structures: growth recurring iii: Diminishing growth - the greying of Japan iv: Japan in context v: Interpretations vi: Synthesis vii: Themes 10. The renewed expansion of Japan i: The forces of expansion ii: Patterns of expansion iii: Institutions of expansion: the Japanese transnational corporation iv: Technology and institutions - Asian impacts v: Pacific partnership: the history of the multifunction polis vi: Into the 1990s: Japan and Asia-Pacific cooperation vii: Conclusions 11. Resolutions - China and Japan i: Governance and self-strengthening: Japan and China ii: Sequencing: China and the modern world economy iii: Progress by partition - sites of Chinese endeavour iv: Penultimate resolutions - Japan and China v: Back to the future. The new sites of endeavour 12. Systems clash - Japan and the USA i: Sam's sequence: climacteric concerns ii: Historical interludes and ironies iii: The global platform: trade and investment iv: Contrasts 1 - enterprise cultures v: Contrasts 2 - science, technology and the defence imperative vi: Conclusions: climacteric causation 13. Reflections on Japan i: Social causation and capitalist maturity ii: F