What is included with this book?
List of illustrations | p. vii |
List of tables | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
Notes on the text | p. xi |
Map | p. xii |
Japan and the history of consumption | p. 1 |
Shopping in the city: urban life and the emergence of the consumer in Tokugawa Japan | p. 11 |
The great cities as centres of consumption | p. 12 |
Consumption and everyday life in the cities | p. 27 |
Goods, the state and society | p. 40 |
Country gentlemen, ordinary consumption and the development of the rural economy | p. 47 |
The rural elite and consumption | p. 48 |
Everyday consumption in the countryside | p. 54 |
Consumption and 'rural-centred' economic growth | p. 66 |
Civilising goods': consumption in the industrialising world | p. 74 |
Newspapers, trains and electricity: the birth of the modern infrastructure of consumption | p. 76 |
'Civilising grain': food and drink in the emerging urban industrial world | p. 87 |
Clothes and household goods: fashion, novelty and changing tradition | p. 97 |
Consumer goods and the path of economic development | p. 102 |
Living with modernity: the emerging consumer of the inter-war years | p. 108 |
Cities, suburbs and shopping | p. 109 |
Everyday life in the modern world | p. 123 |
Attitudes to modern consumption | p. 136 |
The electrical household: consumption, and the economic miracle | p. 145 |
From war and occupation to economic miracle: state, society and mass consumption | p. 146 |
Consuming the bright life | p. 163 |
Consuming and saving: the individual and society | p. 176 |
New tribes and nostalgia: consumption in the late twentieth century and beyond | p. 183 |
Shopping in the city, late twentieth-century style | p. 184 |
Consumption in practice in the post-miracle years | p. 193 |
The ambivalent consumer | p. 207 |
The Japanese consumer past and present | p. 218 |
Statistical appendix | p. 223 |
List of references | p. 231 |
Index | p. 242 |
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