Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940

Hardback

Main Details

Title Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas R.H. Havens
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:372
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreAsian and Middle Eastern history
ISBN/Barcode 9780691645391
ClassificationsDewey:338.10952
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

A study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish? periods.