{"product_id":"economic-institutional-change-in-tokugawa-japan-osaka-and-the-kinai-cotton-trade-paperback-9780521134309","title":"Economic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan; Osaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade (Paperback) 9780521134309","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEconomic Institutional Change in Tokugawa Japan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOsaka and the Kinai Cotton Trade\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines economic and social change in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan, using a case study of the cotton trade in ?saka and the Kinai region.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam B. Hauser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521134309, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 11 March 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOriginally published in 1974, this volume deals with economic and social change in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan, by means of a case study of the cotton trade in ?saka and the surrounding Kinai region. The development of the ?saka cotton trade is studied to illustrate the growth of new kinds of commercial institutions to regularize trading patterns and the changing interaction between merchant groups and the Tokugawa bakufu. A picture is presented of the changing interaction between urban and rural merchants and the ability of cotton cultivating villages to organize and contest urban merchant and governmental attempts to limit their commercial activities. The result is a revised interpretation of the effective coercive powers of the Tokugawa bakufu with respect to socio-economic change. Evidence is offered to illustrate the ability of urban and rural traders to assert their own interests in opposition to Tokugawa efforts at economic controls.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e List of maps\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tokugawa commerce: 1600–1720\u003cbr\u003e 3. Tokugawa commerce: 1720–1868\u003cbr\u003e 4. The ?saka cotton trade: establishment and consolidation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The ?saka cotton trade: institutional decline\u003cbr\u003e 6. Cotton cultivating and processing in the Kinai region\u003cbr\u003e 7. Changes in cotton marketing in the Kinai region\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006585557272,"sku":"9780521134309","price":30.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521134309i_d48b0faf-d724-4da6-8452-7afdc5fb8a53.jpg?v=1691372182","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/economic-institutional-change-in-tokugawa-japan-osaka-and-the-kinai-cotton-trade-paperback-9780521134309","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}