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Coins, trade, and the state : economic growth in early medieval Japan /

Ethan Isaac Segal highlights the role of peripheral elites- including merchants, warriors, rural estate managers, and religious leaders- in the development of the medieval Japanese economy. Individuals from these groups devised new ways to circumvent older forms of exchange by importing Chinese curr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Segal, Ethan Isaac (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: ©2011
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 334.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Medieval money
  • "Cash fever" and the late Heian response
  • Making change : the spread of money and markets
  • Virtue, vice, and self-interest : money and the Kamakura Bakufu
  • Coins, taxes, and trust in the fourteenth century
  • Late medieval and beyond
  • Money and Japanese history.