Background
Hauser, William Barry was born on May 2, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Philip Morris and Zelda Barnett (Abrams) Hauser.
(Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with econ...)
Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with economic and social change in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Japan, by means of a case study of the cotton trade in Ōsaka and the surrounding Kinai region. The development of the Ōsaka cotton trade is studied to illustrate the growth of new kinds of commercial institutions to regularize trading patterns and the changing interaction between merchant groups and the Tokugawa bakufu. A picture is presented of the changing interaction between urban and rural merchants and the ability of cotton cultivating villages to organize and contest urban merchant and governmental attempts to limit their commercial activities. The result is a revised interpretation of the effective coercive powers of the Tokugawa bakufu with respect to socio-economic change. Evidence is offered to illustrate the ability of urban and rural traders to assert their own interests in opposition to Tokugawa efforts at economic controls.
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Hauser, William Barry was born on May 2, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Philip Morris and Zelda Barnett (Abrams) Hauser.
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1960; Master of Arts in East Asian Studies, Yale University, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Yale University, 1969.
Lecturer, assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967-1969, 70-74; assistant professor of history, U. Rochester, New York, 1974-1977; associate professor of history, U. Rochester, New York, 1977-1983; professor of history, U. Rochester, New York, since 1983; department chairman history, U. Rochester, New York, 1979-1985.
(Originally published in 1974, this volume deals with econ...)
Member Association for Asian Studies (chairman advising committee Bibliography of Asian Studies 1984-1996).
Children: Benjamin Lester, Aaron Davidson, Zachary Barnett.