Thomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West2The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period3Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan4Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan5Japan's Aristocratic Revolution6The Discontented7"Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period8Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists9Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan10The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920Index

Thomas C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Premodern Economic Growth: Japan and the West2The Land Tax in the Tokugawa Period3Farm Family By-Employments in Preindustrial Japan4Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century Japan5Japan's Aristocratic Revolution6The Discontented7"Merit" as Ideology in the Tokugawa Period8Okura Nagatsune and the Technologists9Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan10The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890-1920Index