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Book SynopsisA study of agrarian thought in prewar Japan, this bonk concentrates on the developing fissure between official and rural conceptions of nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Professor Havens analyzes the response of Japanese farmers and their spokesmen to the pursuit of modernization during the Meiji and Taish? periods.
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*Tables, pg. xi*I. Agrarian Thought and Japanese Modernization, pg. 1*II. Early Modern Farm Ideology and the Growth of Japanese Agriculture, 1870-1895, pg. 15*III. Bureaucratic Agrarianism in the 1890s, pg. 56*IV. Small Farms and State Policy, 1900-1914, pg. 86*V. Popular Agrarianism in the Early Twentieth Century, pg. 111*VI. Farm Thought and State Policy, 1918-1937, pg. 133*VII. Gondo SeikyS: The Inconspicuous Life of a Popular Nationalist, pg. 163*VIII. Gond5 Seikyo's Ideal Self-Ruling Society, pg. 190*IX. Gondo Seikyo and the Depression Crisis, pg. 212*X. Tachibana Kozaburo's Farm Communalism, pg. 233*XI. Tachibana Kozaburo's Patriotic Reform, pg. 254*XII. Kato Kanji and Agricultural Expansionism, pg. 275*XIII. Agrarianism and Modern Japan, pg. 295*Works Cited, pg. 323*Index, pg. 347*Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, pg. 359
