Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia: Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia.

Akiko Ishii is Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore.

Samson Lim is Lecturer in the History Program at Monash University, Australia.