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Author Hanes, Jeffrey E., 1950-

Title The city as subject : Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka / Jeffrey E. Hanes
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : illustrations
Series Twentieth-century Japan
Twentieth-century Japan.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: SEKI HAJIME AND SOCIAL PROGRESSIVISM IN PREWER JAPAN -- 1. A PORTRAIT OF THE ECONOMIST AS A YOUNG MAN -- 2. THE PEOPLE'S NATIONAL ECONOMY -- 3. CLASS AND NATION -- 4. TOWARD A MODERN MORAL ECONOMY -- 5. A NEW URBANISM -- 6. THE LIVABLE CITY -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan
Analysis Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Seki, Hajime, 1873-1935.
SUBJECT Seki, Hajime, 1873-1935 fast
Subject Economists -- Japan -- Biography
Mayors -- Japan -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Economic history
Economists
Mayors
SUBJECT Osaka (Japan) -- Economic conditions
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069407
Subject Japan
Japan -- Osaka
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Seki, Hajime, 1873-1935.
ISBN 9780520926837
0520926838
9786612356315
6612356316
1597345415
9781597345415