The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts
In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period from the
"Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every
This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan’s economic development. Beginning with Japan’s rise to statehood i