The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka Volume 13

by Jeffrey E. Hanes

In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520228499
• ISBN13: 9780520228498
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"