Yokohama and the Silk Trade

Yokohama and the Silk Trade
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781498555609
ISBN-13 : 1498555608
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Book Synopsis Yokohama and the Silk Trade by : Yasuhiro Makimura

Download or read book Yokohama and the Silk Trade written by Yasuhiro Makimura and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan’s eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations for Japan’s prewar industrial development in the late nineteenth century and was largely responsible for the integration of Japan into the global economy.


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