"By the late twentieth century, Japanese people were renowned as the world's most avid and knowledgeable consumers of …. Penelope Francks' book offers an alternative account of Japan's modern economic history from the perspective of the consumer …. Tracing Japan's economy from the eighteenth century to the present, she shows how history has conditioned what Japanese people …

"Examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period. Takes a chronological and global view to the …