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Author Hayami, Akira, 1929-2019

Title Population, family and society in pre-modern Japan : collected papers of Akira Hayami / [foreword by Osamu Saitō ; introduction by Akira Hayami]
Published Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Collected papers of twentieth-century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 4
Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 4.
Contents pt. 1. Tokugawa Japan -- pt. 2. Demography through the telescope -- pt. 3. Demography through the microscope -- pt. 4. Family and household -- pt. 5. Epilogue
Summary Doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami's writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. Containing twenty key essays, the volume is divided into five parts: Tokugawa Japan, Demography through Telescope, Demography through Microscope, Family and Household, Afterwards. It begins with Philip II of Spain and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the sixteenth century and concludes with Koji Sugi and the emergence of modern population studies in the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Families -- Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Families
Population
Social conditions
Bevölkerung -- Japan -- Geschichte Neuzeit.
SUBJECT Japan -- Population -- History
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069574
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Saitō, Osamu, 1946-
ISBN 9789004212930
9004212930
1282486187
9781282486188
9786612486180
661248618X