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Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

David L. Howell
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Proto-Industrialization has been defined as a transitional phase on the way to modern, factory industrialization, characterized by “the development of rural regions in which a large part of the population lived entirely or to a considerable extent from industrial mass production for inter-regional and international markets” (Kriedte, Medick, and Schlumbohm [KMS] 1981:6). This article will use protoindustrialization as a lens through which to reexamine a number of issues in early modern Japanese history, including the relationship between commercial agriculture and rural industry, the role of the state in economic development, and the economic geography of the late Tokugawa period. Perhaps most importantly, I hope by looking at proto-industrialization to reach a better understanding of the transition from the feudalism of the Tokugawa era to the capitalist development of the Meiji period and beyond.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , May 1992 , pp. 269 - 286
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992

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