The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War

by Christopher Howe

Book Overview

Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship Christopher Howe traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries and locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events that began in the sixteenth century.

"Thoughtful, well-organized, and lucidly written and reflects many years of painstaking research in different literatures."--Business Horizons

"The best analysis yet in English of the role of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226354865
• ISBN13: 9780226354866
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 499 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"