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Everyday things in premodern Japan

by Susan B. Hanley

1997 213 pages eng

Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900. Its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. Were the Japanese people somehow better prepared for industrialization than people of other countries? In this book, Susan B. Hanle…

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