Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521893350)

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

Author: Luke S. Roberts
ISBN-10: 0521893356
ISBN-13: 9780521893350
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2002
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.92w x 0.71d