Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain Roberts Paperback Cambridge University Press

Mercantilism in a Japanese DomainThe Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa\nAuthor(s): Luke S. Roberts\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521893350, 978-0521893350\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the historical roots of economic nationalism within Japan. By examining how mercantilist thought developed in the eighteenth-century domain of Toas, Luke Roberts shows how economic ideas were generated at the regional level. During the Edo period [tel], Japan was divided into over 230 competitive states, many of which wished to reduce the dominance of the shogun's economy. The seventeenth-century Japanese economy was based on samurai notions of service - especially the duty performed by the dominal lord to the shogun - and the rhetoric of political economy that centred on the lord and the samurai class. This 'economy of service,' however, led to crises in deforestation and land deg.