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Middlemen of Modernity Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan.

Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages ac...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Craig, Christopher (College teacher)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2021.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Mayor Straw Sandals: Kamata Sannosuke and the Meibōka Ideal -- Chapter Two The World Turned Upside Down: Hydrological Conflict and the Transformation of Local Lead -- Chapter Three A Harvest of Knowledge and Ambition: Rōnō and the Rise of Agricultural Associations -- Chapter Four Fighting the Farmers for National Wealth: Landlord Meibōka and the New Agricultural Order -- Chapter Five The Spirit of the Times Has Changed: A New Vision for Agricultural Development 
505 8 |a Chapter Six Coming Full Circle: The Future History of Miyagi Meibōka -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Columbia University 
520 |a Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century.Middlemen of Modernity offers a new perspective on Japanese modernization, one in which farming villages were neither premodern relics nor secondary concerns for the architects of the new nation. Modernity was worked out in the mud of rice paddies, as much as in any stateroom or factory, and the communities of Miyagi and villages throughout Japan helped shape the modern state, even as they were shaped by it. Mining a wealth of local sources, Christopher Craig provides a comprehensive study studded with stories of individual actors that remains closely connected to Japan's development and presents a history of agriculture from the early Meiji period to the postwar American occupation. Craig also engages with scholarship in environmental history and food studies, and his detailed treatment of the interactions between local villagers and central bureaucrats makes a valuable contribution to studies of state-society relations. 
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