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A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization
Contributor(s): Smith, Kerry (Author)

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 ISBN: 0674003705     ISBN-13: 9780674003705
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2001
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Annotation: modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia - Japan
Dewey: 952.117
LCCN: 00046093
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6.34" W x 9.32" L (1.89 lbs) 512 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Chinese
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Cultural Region - Asian
Features: Maps
Review Citations: Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 570
 
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Publisher Description:
This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications for our understanding of both the war years and the postwar reconstruction. The reactions of inhabitants of rural areas to the depression shed new light on how average Japanese responded to the problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Kerry: - Kerry Smith is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.
 
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