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The sound of the whistle : railroads and the state in Meiji Japan / Steven J. Ericson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 168. | Harvard East Asian monographs. Subseries on the history of Japanese business and industry.Publication details: Cambridge Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 506 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781684173099
  • 1684173094
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sound of the whistle.DDC classification:
  • 385/.0952 23/eng/20240906
LOC classification:
  • HE3357 .E75 1996
Other classification:
  • 15.75
  • 83.72
Online resources:
Contents:
The Transformative Power of Meiji Railroads -- The First Two Decades -- The Making of the Railway Construction Law -- Forging a Consensus -- The Business Response
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Steven Ericson has written what promises to be the most thorough study of the Japanese railroad industry in the English language. In addition to the body of research on the industry itself, Ericson has provided an astute analysis of the politics of development and the relationship between state and private enterprise in the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period.Summary: He explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations in the course of Japan's modern transformation, and at the same time challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the role of the Japanese government as well as commercial banks in Meiji industrialization.Summary: By providing a fresh perspective on the "strong state/weak state" debate through detailed analysis of the 1906-1907 railway nationalization, Ericson's study sheds new light on the Meiji origins of modern Japanese industrial policy and politics, filling a major gap in the available literature on the Meiji political economy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-491) and index.

Steven Ericson has written what promises to be the most thorough study of the Japanese railroad industry in the English language. In addition to the body of research on the industry itself, Ericson has provided an astute analysis of the politics of development and the relationship between state and private enterprise in the Japanese railroad industry during the Meiji period.

He explores the economic role of government and the nature of state-business relations in the course of Japan's modern transformation, and at the same time challenges the tendency of current scholarship to minimize the role of the Japanese government as well as commercial banks in Meiji industrialization.

By providing a fresh perspective on the "strong state/weak state" debate through detailed analysis of the 1906-1907 railway nationalization, Ericson's study sheds new light on the Meiji origins of modern Japanese industrial policy and politics, filling a major gap in the available literature on the Meiji political economy

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The Transformative Power of Meiji Railroads -- The First Two Decades -- The Making of the Railway Construction Law -- Forging a Consensus -- The Business Response

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