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Servants, Shophands, And Laborers In The Cities Of Tokugawa Japan
In this analysis of lower-class life in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), Gary Leupp vividly portrays the emergence of an urban proletariat during a time of extraordinary economic change. With the rapid increase in commercial activity, products previously restricted to use by the elite became commodities for mass consumption. Likewise, labor power became a commodity as hired lab...more
Hardcover
Published
June 1st 1992
by Princeton University Press
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interesting, somewhat dry, a quick read. A useful comparative case for the dozens and dozens of monographs published on the formation of the urban proletariat in Western Europe
Apr 21, 2010
Cameron Willis
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Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion.
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