Japanese Consumer An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan

Name: Japanese Consumer An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780521699327

ISBN-10: 0521699320

ISBN-13: 9780521699327

Edition: 2009

Authors: Penelope Francks

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of tables


Acknowledgements


Notes on the text


Map



Japan and the history of consumption



Shopping in the city: urban life and the emergence of the consumer in Tokugawa Japan


The great cities as centres of consumption


Consumption and everyday life in the cities


Goods, the state and society



Country gentlemen, ordinary consumption and the development of the rural economy


The rural elite and consumption


Everyday consumption in the countryside


Consumption and 'rural-centred' economic growth



Civilising goods': consumption in the industrialising world


Newspapers, trains and electricity: the birth of the modern infrastructure of consumption


'Civilising grain': food and drink in the emerging urban industrial world


Clothes and household goods: fashion, novelty and changing tradition


Consumer goods and the path of economic development



Living with modernity: the emerging consumer of the inter-war years


Cities, suburbs and shopping


Everyday life in the modern world


Attitudes to modern consumption



The electrical household: consumption, and the economic miracle


From war and occupation to economic miracle: state, society and mass consumption


Consuming the bright life


Consuming and saving: the individual and society



New tribes and nostalgia: consumption in the late twentieth century and beyond


Shopping in the city, late twentieth-century style


Consumption in practice in the post-miracle years


The ambivalent consumer



The Japanese consumer past and present


Statistical appendix


List of references


Index