Hisco: Confronting Economic Change in Japan

by Marco H.D. Van Leeuwen, A. Pitlo, Ineke Maas

This book addresses a long-standing problem faced by researchers using occupational information from historical sources in different countries: how to make effective comparisons between nations and across regional boundaries. Occupational data are routinely employed by historians and other social scientists to investigate past patterns and processes of economic and social life. Occupations are in many senses the best, and in some cases the only, available...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9058671968
• ISBN13: 9789058671967
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 10.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher