Hard times in the hometown : a history of community survival in modern Japan /

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Hard Times in the Hometown tells the story of Kaminoseki, a small town on Japan's Inland Sea. Once one of the most prosperous ports in the country, Kaminoseki fell into profound economic decline following Japan's reengagement with the West in the late nineteenth century. Using a recently d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dusinberre, Martin, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]
Subjects:
1800 - 1999
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Social conditions.
Kaminoseki (Japan) > History > 19th century.
Kaminoseki (Japan) > History > 20th century.
Kaminoseki (Japan) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Kaminoseki (Japan) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Japan > Kaminoseki.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The silk road of the sea : a beginning
  • Edo period riches
  • Murotsu and the Meiji Revolution, 1868
  • The political culture of the Meiji village
  • Ritual culture and political power
  • Overseas migration at the turn of the twentieth century
  • The transnational hometown : zenith and decline
  • Bridging the postwar divide
  • Furusato boom, Kaminoseki bust
  • Nuclear decision
  • Atomic power, community fission
  • The silk road of the sea : an ending.

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