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Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900. Its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. Were the Japanese people somehow better prepared for industrialization than people of other countries? In this book, Susan B. Hanley looks to life in Japan before industrialization for answers.
Hanley focuses on the level of physical well-being of ordinary Japanese people in the three centuries prior to the modern era (the Tokugawa period, 1600-1868). Whereas others have used income levels to conclude that the Japanese household was relatively poor in those centuries, Hanley examines consumption patterns - of food, clothing, and housing - and discovers that the overall level of well-being there was much higher than previously understood.
Analysis of hygiene and public sanitation shows Japan to have been at least as healthful as nineteenth-century England, nearly a century after industrialization began there.
Perhaps even more far-reaching than Hanley's conclusions about Japan in the nineteenth century are her insights into the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards in premodern cultures. Using Hanley's methods, scholars in all areas of history will be able to compare widely differing cultures more meaningfully. Her discoveries and her new approach will be useful to anyone interested in the effects of modernization on daily life.
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History, Material culture, Social life and customs, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Japan, social life and customs, Japan, history, Culture matérielle, Mœurs et coutumes, Histoire, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture, Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868, Manners and customsPlaces
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Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture
1999, University of California Press
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Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture
June 8, 1999, University of California Press
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Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture
1997, University of California Press
in English
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