Middlemen of Modernity : : Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan / / Christopher Craig.
Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages ac...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 8 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Mayor Straw Sandals: Kamata Sannosuke and the Meibōka Ideal
- Chapter Two The World Turned Upside Down: Hydrological Conflict and the Transformation of Local Leadership
- Chapter Three A Harvest of Knowledge and Ambition: Rōnō and the Rise of Agricultural Associations
- Chapter Four Fighting the Farmers for National Wealth: Landlord Meibōka and the New Agricultural Order
- Chapter Five The Spirit of the Times Has Changed: A New Vision for Agricultural Developm
- Chapter Six Coming Full Circle: The Future History of Miyagi Meibōka
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index