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Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa

Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa

Roberts, Luke S.

Paperback

Series: Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tos

Business GeneralMedieval & Renaissance HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 0521893356
ISBN13: 9780521893350
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 2 2002
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
This book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. By examining how mercantilist thought developed in the eighteenth-century domain of Toas, Luke Roberts shows how economic ideas were generated at the regional level. During the Edo period (1600-1867), Japan was divided into over 230 competitive states, many of which wished to reduce the dominance of the shogun's economy. The seventeenth-century Japanese economy was based on samurai notions of service - especially the duty performed by the dominal lord to the shogun - and the rhetoric of political economy that centred on the lord and the samurai class. This 'economy of service, ' however, led to crises in deforestation and land degradation, government fiscal insolvency and increasingly corrupt tax levies, and finally a loss of faith in government.

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