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Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa. By Luke S. Roberts. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 251. $59.95.)

For much of the postwar period, Western research on Japan was guided by the search for the indigenous origins of Japan's modernization. Working from this perspective, economic historians studying the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) sought mainly to trace the early development of commercialization, protoindustrialization, and other socioeconomic processes, which were thought to be universal to the ...