The Historical Consumer

Edited by Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter

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Date: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-36734-0
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Japan’s Consumption History in Comparative Perspective

Penelope Francks and Janet Hunter

Ch 2 The Role of Housework in Everyday Life: Another Aspect of Consumption in Modern Japan

Masayuki Tanimoto

Ch 3 Like Bamboo Shoots after the Rain: The Growth of a Nation of Dressmakers and Consumers

Andrew Gordon

Ch 4 Building up Steam as Consumers: Women, Rice Cookers and the Consumption of Everyday Household Goods in Japan

Helen Macnaughtan

Ch 5 Japanese Modernisation and the Changing Everyday Life of the Consumer: Evidence from Household Accounts

Satoru Nakanishi and Tomoko Futaya

Ch 6 Sweetness and Empire: Sugar Consumption in Imperial Japan

Barak Kushner

Ch 7 Kimono Fashion: The Consumer and the Growth of the Textile Industry in Pre-War Japan

Penelope Francks

Ch 8 Reviving Tradition: Patients and the Shaping of Japan’s Traditional Medicines Industry

Maki Umemura

Ch 9 Getting on a Train: Railway Passengers and the Growth of Train Travel in Meiji Japan

Naofumi Nakamura

Ch 10 People and Post Offices: Consumption and Postal Services in Japan from the 1870s to the 1970s

Janet Hunter

Ch 11 Mail-Order Retailing in Pre-War Japan: A Pathway of Consumption Before the Emergence of the Mass Market

Isamu Mitsuzono

Ch 12 From Corporate Playground to Family Resort: Golf as Commodity in Post-War Japan

Angus Lockyer

Ch 13 History and the Study of Consumerism: A Historian of the West Looks to Japan

Beverly Lemire

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