"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--Series t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Premodern economic growth : Japan and the West -- The land tax in th e Tokugawa period -- Farm family by-employments in preindustrial Japan -- Peasant families and population control in eighteenth-century Japan -- Japan's aristocratic revolution -- The discontented -- "Merit" as id eology in the Tokugawa period -- Ōkura Nagatsune and the technologists -- Peasant time and factory time in Japan -- The right to benevolence : dignity and Japanese workers, 1890-1920.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2005. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.