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This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the 'consumer revolution' in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the course of economic development.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Japan’s Consumption History in Comparative Perspective
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Gender, the Household and Consumption
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Tradition, Modernity and the Growth of Consumption
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Spaces and Pathways of Consumption
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
PENELOPE FRANCKS Honorary Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Leeds; Research Associate, SOAS, London, UK
TOMOKO FUTYAMA JSPS Fellow
ANDREW GORDON Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University, USA
JANET HUNTER Saji Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics, UK
BARAK KUSHNER Lecturer in Modern Japanese History, Faculty of Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
BEVERLY LEMIRE Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History & Classics and Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Canada
ANGUS LOCKYER Lecturer in the History of Japan, Department of History, SOAS, London, UK
HELEN MACNAUGHTAN Lecturer in International Business & Management (Japan), Department of Financial & Management Studies, SOAS, London, UK
ISAMU MITSUZONO JSPS Fellow, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan
NAOFUMI NAKAMURA Associate Professor of Business History, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
SATORU NAKANISHI Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Japan
MASAYUKI TANIMOTO Professor of Economic History, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan
MAKI UMEMURA Sasakawa Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Historical Consumer
Book Subtitle: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000
Editors: Penelope Francks, Janet Hunter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367340
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27366-5Published: 15 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32413-2Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-36734-0Published: 15 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 329
Topics: Asian Economics, Microeconomics, Economic History, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Economics, Marketing