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Public goods provision in the early modern economy : comparative perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe /

"This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods" defined as non-market mediated goods not limited to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (160...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tanimoto, Masayuki, 1959- (Editor ), Wong, Roy Bin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : towards the public goods provision in the early modern economy / Masayuki Tanimoto
  • From "feudal" lords to local notables : the role of regional society in public goods provision from early modern to modern Japan / Masayuki Tanimoto
  • Samurai and peasants in the civil administration of early modern Japan / Kenichiro Aratake
  • Outsourcing the lord's finance : the origin of local public finance in early modern Japan / Kazuho Sakai
  • Sanctions, targetism, and village autonomy : poor relief in early modern rural Japan / Mitsuo Kinoshita
  • Coping with risk in the seventeenth century : the first age of the English old poor law, a regional study / Jonathan Healey
  • Coping with poverty in rural Brandenburg : the role of lords and state in the late eighteenth century / Takashi Iida
  • Coping with poverty and famine : material welfare, public goods, and Chinese approaches to governance / R. Bin Wong
  • The development of civil engineering projects and village communities in seventeenth to nineteenth century Japan / Junichi Kanzaka
  • Rulers and ruled in flood protection during the eighteenth century : the Prussian example / Heinrich Kaak
  • Infrastructure maintenance in the Jifu region, Beijing metropolitan region during the eighteenth century / Takehiko To
  • Provided for public welfare : traffic infrastructure and the "bonum commune topos" with examples from fifteenth and sixteenth century Brandenburg electorate / Sascha Bütow
  • Lords' forestry for people's basic needs : evidence from Prussia's royal domains and forests during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Takashi Iida
  • The role of villagers in domain and state forest management : Japan's path from Tokugawa period to the early twentieth century / Takeshi Aoki
  • Forests as commons in early modern China : an analysis of legal cases / Yoshiyuki Aihara
  • Conclusion : public goods and economy in the early modern era: new perspectives on modern economies and contemporary environmental concerns / R. Bin Wong.