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Coins, trade, and the state : economic growth in early medieval Japan / Ethan Isaac Segal

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Segal, Ethan Isaac
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center and distributed by Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
xii, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: The Use of Money in Premodern Japan -- Money and Economic Growth -- Reconsidering Medieval Money -- Scope of the Study -- 1."Cash Fever" and the Late Heian Response -- Money and Economic Policies in Nara and Early Heian -- Problems with Heian Coins and Currency -- Gold, Foreign Trade, and Bargaining Power -- Twelfth-Century Coins and the Heian Elite Response -- Conclusion -- 2.Making Change: The Spread of Money and Markets -- The Market in Ancient Japan -- Medieval Markets -- Why Switch to Cash? -- Money, Trade, and the Kamakura Bakufu -- Conclusion -- 3.Virtue, Vice, and Self-Interest: Money and the Kamakura Bakufu -- Mongols or Moneylenders? Searching for Motives -- Virtuous Government and Debt Relief in Early Japan -- Tokusei and the Court-Bakufu Rivalry of the Thirteenth Century -- Self-Interest and Bakufu-Retainer Relations -- Reciprocal Relationships and Gift Economy -- Conclusions: Vice, Virtue, and Self-Interest in Kamakura Japan -- 4.Coins, Taxes, and Trust in the Fourteenth Century -- Tax Commutation -- Commutation: A Local or Central Phenomenon? -- Why Switch to Cash? -- Commutation and Bakufu Economic Policy -- Bills of Exchange -- Conclusion -- 5.Late Medieval and Beyond -- From Kamakura to Kenmu -- Economic Policies of the Muromachi Bakufu -- Instability and Other Weaknesses of the Muromachi System -- The Role of Non-Elites in the Muromachi Economy -- Medieval Money in the Early Modern Economy -- Conclusion.
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9780674060685 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0674060687 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-241) and index.
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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment; 2011.
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Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment
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