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Yoh KAWANAArticle type: Article
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 253-273
Published: September 25, 2003
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSIn research into the social organisation of provincial English towns before the civil war, much work has been done on guilds and parishes. However, we still know little about the structure of the relationships of ordinary men and women outside formal urban institutions. This case study examines the neglected patterns of day-to-day economic and social relationships in the public, private and mixed spheres of an English county town, and explores how they affected the formal spatial views manifested in local by-laws and institutions. Analysis of pre-trial examinations conducted by local JPs demonstrates that Leicester was an open society where networks of freemen, non-freemen, and strangers were organised in open markets, streets, and houses for credit arrangements and private dealings. The involvement of freemen in informal society also has significant implications for local governance. As the analysis of Leicester town minutes suggests, the civic elite often incorporated informal relationships into the society of freemen by putting relevant regulations into statutory form. Through examining the situation in a typical inland town under the influence of growing demographic pressure and state power, this article highlights both the tension between and fusion of 'formal' and 'informal' forces in the local context, and brings the informal sphere of urban society to the centre stage of the historical debate on urbanisation.View full abstractDownload PDF (2216K) -
Tetsuji OKAZAKI, Michiru SAWADAArticle type: Article
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 275-296
Published: September 25, 2003
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSIn this paper we examine the effects of bank consolidations on the financial system in prewar Japan, when the first large-scale bank merger movement took place. Our analysis focusses on governance structure and performance. With respect to the former, we found that in cases of absorption, where one participant was dominant, consolidations had the effect of removing unfavorable director interlocking between banks and their related firms. This finding is particularly significant, because it sheds light on the process by which the pervasive tendency towards 'insider lending' found in countries in the early stages of economic development disappears. With respect to the latter, we confirmed that consolidations had a positive impact on deposit growth, but not on profitability. The positive impact on deposit growth was significant for the stability of the financial system in prewar Japan, because the lack of a deposit insurance system meant that the financial system was continuously exposed to the risk of bank runs.View full abstractDownload PDF (2066K) -
Mariko YAMAGATAArticle type: Article
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 297-321
Published: September 25, 2003
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSIt has been assumed that the military buildup of Saga domain was made possible by income from foreign trade at Nagasaki. However, details of the huge payments for warships show that the main source came from the feudal lord's kakesuzurikata (special account) at Kamigata (Osaka) market. After the Tempo Reform of the 1830s, Saga reduced its vast debt to ryogae-sho (moneylenders) in Osaka that had been accumulating since the previous century through annual installments over many years and through debt repudiation. In 1856 the domain issued hansatsu (its own notes) based on Saga assets and funds raised from rich merchants within the domain, in other words, without depending on Osaka moneylenders. In a sense it had achieved economic autonomy from Osaka and Hyogo moneylenders. After 1849, Saga worked for the reconstruction of its finances through strengthening the kakesuzurikata and encouraging domain production through the establishment of monopolies in porcelain and wax. From 1859, the domain involved Osaka and Hyogo moneylenders in the sale of monopoly products and the management of the proceeds. This enabled Saga to reinforce its relationship with the moneylenders so that it could raise vast funds on the Kamigata market. These were the funds which they used in the modernization of their armaments.View full abstractDownload PDF (2592K) -
Katsutoshi HASHIGUCHIArticle type: Article
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 323-342
Published: September 25, 2003
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSThe purpose of this paper is to examine the development of a domestic market for the cotton-weaving industry of the Chita region of central Japan. Special attention will be paid to the role of local merchants. The paper makes two main points: First, Takita Shoten, which was a local wholesaler, is an example of a firm which reorganized its traditional trade system by bringing about changes in the cotton yarn and textile merchants which were its clients. Second, the Chitagun Shiromomen Dogyo Kumiai (Chita Association of Cotton-cloth Traders), an association established by the principal merchants of the Chita region in 1902, made a large contribution to the development of the local cotton-weaving industry, in terms of controls on entry, inspections of product quality, and the regulation of output. In short, the development of the domestic market for cotton woven in Chita was dependent on the activities of local merchants.View full abstractDownload PDF (1914K) -
Takeshi MATSUMURAArticle type: Article
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 343-356
Published: September 25, 2003
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JOURNAL OPEN ACCESSMany scholars have argued that in Right Bank Ukraine, Prussian type agrarian capitalism was well-developed by the beginning of the twentieth century. They suggest that the semi-proletarian peasants who were needed as a labor force for this type of agrarian capitalism were created through the seizure of land by landlords and the descent of peasants from the upper to the lower classes in the first half of the nineteenth century. However, all the chronological materials regarding the estates of Podlya (one of the three provinces of Right Bank Ukraine) that are known to exist today show that there were no such land seizures or cases of downward mobility from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth. Though the number of lower class peasants increased, the number of upper classes peasants remained the same throughout this period, and the number of lower classes peasants grew only on those estates where there was a growth in total population. Moreover, the number of livestock per peasant grew in this period despite the increase in the days of forced labor. Therefore, the increase in the ratio of lower class peasants was the result of population increase, and not the result of either land seizures or downward mobility.View full abstractDownload PDF (1390K) -
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 357-358
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 359-360
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 361-363
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 363-365
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 365-367
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 367-369
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 369-371
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 371-373
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 373-375
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 375-377
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 377-379
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2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 379-381
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Article type: Bibliography
2003 Volume 69 Issue 3 Pages 383-385
Published: September 25, 2003
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