Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan

by Christopher Craig

Book Overview

Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824889398
• ISBN13: 9780824889395
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"