The Soil: Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series) - Hardcover

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Nagatsuka, Takashi

 
9780415030748: The Soil: Portrait of Rural Life in Meiji Japan (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415030749 ISBN 13: 9780415030748
Publisher: Routledge, 1989

Synopsis

This novel is a first hand account of rural and agricultural change in Japan through the late 19th and early 20th century when the country's rate of modernization was at its peak.

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Review

"This richly detailed novel is both fascinating and informative. Credit must also go to Ann Waswo for so effectively rendering this textured and lively portrait of a vanished past so vividly in English."--Francis Bosha, "Mainichi Daily News

About the Author

Ann Waswo is University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford. A Fellow of St. Antony's College, she is the author of Japanese Landlords: The Decline of a Rural Elite (California, 1977).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415030749
ISBN 13 
9780415030748
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780520083721: The Soil: Volume 8 (Voices from Asia)

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ISBN 10:  0520083725 ISBN 13:  9780520083721
Publisher: University of California Press, 1994
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