First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Makes Japanese sources accessible in English Although much of the work on Japanese economic history is inaccessible to Westerners, many of Japan's leading econo

The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts

In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the

Revolutionized by the growing use of fossil fuels and electricity and the reduced costs of transportation and communications, international trade and migration