Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain : The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa (Hardcover)

1. Introduction; 2. The geography and politics of seventeenth-century Tosa; 3. Creating a crisis in Tosa; 4. The decline and restoration of domain finances; 5. Voices from the 1750s: Tosa's petition box; 6. Imagined economies: merchants and samurais; 7. Declining service; 8. Cooking up a country: sugar, eggs, and gunpowder, 1759?1868; 9. Conclusion.