Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

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Otros Autores: Tanimoto, Masayuki (Editor ), Tanimoto, Masayuki, editor (editor), Wong, R. Bin, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland University of California Press 2019
Berkeley, CA : [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Toward the Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
  • Introduction
  • 2. From "Feudal" Lords to Local Notables: The Role of Regional Society in Public Goods Provision from Early Modern to Modern Japan
  • 3. Samurai and Peasants in the Civil Administration of Early Modern Japan
  • 4. Outsourcing the Lord's Finance: An Origin of Local Public Finance in Early Modern Japan
  • Introduction
  • 5. Sanctions, Targetism, and Village Autonomy: Poor Relief in Early Modern Rural Japan
  • 6. Coping with Risk in the Seventeenth Century: The First Age of the English Old Poor Law: A Regional Study
  • 7. Coping with Poverty in Rural Brandenburg: The Role of Lords and State in the Late Eighteenth Century
  • 8. Coping with Poverty and Famine: Material Welfare, Public Goods, and Chinese Approaches to Governance
  • Introduction
  • 9. The Development of Civil Engineering Projects and Village Communities in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Japan
  • 10. Rulers and Ruled in Flood Protection during the Eighteenth Century: The Prussian Example
  • 11. Infrastructure Maintenance in the Jifu Region, Beijing Metropolitan Region during the Eighteenth Century
  • 12. Provided for Public Welfare: Traffic Infrastructure and "The Bonum Commune Topos" with Examples from Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Brandenburg Electorate
  • Introduction
  • 13. Lords' Forestry for People's Basic Needs: Evidence from Prussia's Royal Domains and Forests during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 14. The Role of Villagers in Domain and State Forest Management: Japan's Path from Tokugawa Period to the Early Twentieth Century
  • 15. Forests as Commons in Early Modern China: An Analysis of Legal Cases
  • 16. Public Goods and Economy in the Early Modern Era-New Perspectives on Modern Economies and Contemporary Environmental Concerns
  • Contributors
  • Index