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Everyday things in premodern Japan : the hidden legacy of material culture /
Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | NetLibrary.
EBSCO eBook Collection. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously unders. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520922679 0520922670 0585101477 9780585101477 9780520204706 0520204700 0520218124 9780520218123 |