Yasuhiro Makimura: 1 book
Yokohama and the Silk Trade
How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This study provides a broad political and economic examination of the impact of the silk trade on nineteenth-century Japan. It analyzes the economic role of Japan’s eastern interior region and that of the port of Yokohama. It argues that the economic development in this period laid the foundations...
