A Time of Crisis - Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-674-01277-6
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 191, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 671 g

Reihe: Harvard East Asian Monographs

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications for our understanding of both the war years and the postwar reconstruction. The reactions of inhabitants of rural areas to the depression shed new light on how average Japanese responded to the problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Kerry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Kerry
Kerry Smith is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.