The historical consumer : consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000
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The historical consumer : consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Available at 36 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Japan's Consumption History in Comparative Perspective
- J. Hunter & P. Francks PART I: GENDER, THE HOUSEHOLD AND CONSUMPTION The Role of Housework in Everyday Life: Another Aspect of Consumption in Modern Japan
- M. Tanimoto Like Bamboo Shoots after the Rain: the Growth of a Nation of Dressmakers and Consumers
- A. Gordon Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice-cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan
- H. Macnaughtan PART II: TRADITION, MODERNITY AND THE GROWTH OF CONSUMPTION Japanese Modernisation and the Changing Everyday Life of the Consumer: Evidence from Household Accounts
- S. Nakanishi & T. Futaya Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan
- B. Kushner Kimono Fashion: the Consumer and the Growth of the Textile Industry in Pre-war Japan
- P. Francks Reviving Tradition: Patients and the Shaping of Japan's Traditional Medicines Industry
- M. Umemura PART III: SPACES AND PATHWAYS OF CONSUMPTION Getting on a Train: Railway Passengers and the Growth of Train Travel in Meiji Japan
- N. Nakamura People and Post Offices: Consumption of Postal Services in Japan from the Late Nineteenth Century
- J. Hunter Mail-order Retailing in Pre-war Japan: a Pathway to Consumption Before the Mass Market
- I. Mitsuzono From Corporate Playground to Family Resort: Golf as Commodity in Post-war Japan
- A. Lockyer Conclusion: History and the Consumer: an Historian of the West Looks to Japan
- B. Lemire
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