The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (W W Norton & Company; 1998)

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  1. Keene, Japanese Discovery of Europe, p. 25.
    30. Cited ibid., p. 25.
    31. On this persecution, see Takekoshi, Economic Aspects, III, 233-35.
    32. See Keene, Japanese Discovery, pp. 21-22, on the dissection of "Old Mother
    Green Tea."
    33. Cited ibid., pp. 26-27.
    34. Totman, Early Modern Japan, p. 519.
    35. Craig, Chôshû in the Meiji Restoration, p. 71.
    36. Tsuru Shigeto, "Development of Capitalism and Business Cycles in Japan" (MS,
    Harvard University), cited in Brown, "Okubo Toshimichi," p. 186.


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  1. On these and other episodes of these years of reciprocal trial and measure, see
    Miyoshi, As We Saw Them, ch. 4: "Lives."

  2. Brown, "Okubo Toshimichi," p. 190.

  3. On all this, see Shimada, "Social Time and Modernity in Japan."

  4. Brown, "Okubo Toshimichi," p. 191, n. 27. Okubo's enemies used his house to
    hurt him. They even sent photographs of a new public building to Satsuma and said
    that this was Okubo's accursed mansion; and it is said that this photo convinced Saigo
    to break with Okubo and his circle.

  5. Minami, Economic Development, p. 99.

  6. Cf. Samuels, Business of the Japanese State, ch. 3, especially the illustrations, pp.
    76-79.

  7. Hirschmeier, Origins ofEntrepreneurship, p. 99; Hane, Peasants, Rebels, and Out-
    casts, p. 173; Ohkawa and Kohama, Lectures on Developing Economies, p. 35.

  8. Minami, Power Revolution, ch. vi.

  9. Landes, "What Do Bosses Really Do?", p. 593.

  10. Fukui, "Japanese State," p. 205.

  11. Ibid., p. 204: by the opening of the new century, almost all children were enrolled,
    but no more than three quarters attended class regularly.

  12. Hane, Peasants, Rebels, and Outcasts, pp. 177-78.

  13. Ibid., p. 182.

  14. The above is based on Thomas Smith, "The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and
    Japanese Workers, 1890-1920," in Smith, Native Sources, pp. 236-70.


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  1. Chaudhuri, Asia before Europe, p. 71.

  2. Cited ibid., p. 73.

  3. This vivid formulation is by Eric Jones, European Miracle, p. 194. Jones's ch. 9,
    "Islam and the Ottoman Empire," is probably the best and most compact discussion
    of these matters.

  4. Ibid., p. 194.

  5. Cf. Lewis, Muslim Discovery of Europe, pp. 190-91.

  6. Cf. Jones, European Miracle, p. 185, citing Braudel, La Méditerranée.

  7. Lewis, Muslim Discovery, p. 161.

  8. Jones, European Miracle, p. 177; Lewis, Muslim Discovery, p. 199.

  9. Lewis, Muslim Discovery, pp. 195-96.

  10. Jones, European Miracle, p. 185.

  11. On Jumel, see Batou, Cent ans de résistance, p. 96. Like many of his kind, he was
    drawn to Egypt by financial incentives; and sent on his way by matters of the heart
    ("une déception sentimentale").

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