Japan's Protoindustrial Elite: The Economic Foundations of the Gōnō

by Edward E. Pratt

Students of the late Tokugawa and Meiji periods have long recognized the critical role of rural elites (the gono ) in Japan's economic transformation, but the largely impressionistic and episodic scholarship on this pivotal class has created an image of rural elites as successful trailblazers of industrial society. Through a close examination of economic trends and case studies of particular families, this study demonstrates that Japan's protoindustrial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067447290X
• ISBN13: 9780674472907
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"