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Time of Crisis
Kerry Smith
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Description for Time of Crisis
Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 510 pages, 9figs.3M. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 36. Weight in Grams: 858.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
510
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674003705
SKU
V9780674003705
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About Kerry Smith
Kerry Smith is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.
Reviews for Time of Crisis
Smith has produced a groundbreaking study of the impact of the Great Depression on Japan in the 1930s. The early 1930s, when Japan was wracked by internal and external problems, was called a 'time of crisis' by contemporary Japanese...This unique and insightful look at a crucial time in modern Japanese history is highly recommended.
M. D. Ericson
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