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Book Synopsis This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 bc to the 1990s. From the Back Cover This authoritative and accessible book charts the history of Japan from c.8000 bc to the 1990s. Conrad Totman conceptualizes the country's history in terms of four major ages: the age of foragers, dispersed agriculturalists, intensive agriculture, and industrialism. Within this framework, he traces the changing patterns of human-environment relations and examines their interplay with the more familiar realms of political, socio-economic, and cultural history. The book treats the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries in considerable detail and gives fullest coverage to the twentieth century when this island nation became a major player on the stage of world history. In its survey of this recent history, it explores: diplomatic and domestic political affairs; economic development and change; class, gender, and ethnicity; ideology and political punditry; cultural production in the arts; letters, music, and popular entertainment; and environmental issues. For the second edition, an epilogue has been added looking at Japan today and tomorrow, paying particular attention to environmental and diplomatic issues. Review Quotes "A History of Japan is a highly recommended, informative, scholarly, comprehensive, and 'reader friendly' introduction and historical survey that will be much appreciated by students of Japanese history and culture, and has a wealth of material for the non-specialist general reader seeking to understand the Japan of antiquity as well as a contemporary and influential society." The Midwest Book Review "Not until Conrad Totman's A History of Japan has there been such a sophisticated and detailed record of Japan's past, one that combines and critiques the standard perspectives while adding a new vision all its own. In a word, this is the best single-volume examination of Japan's history available .. A History of Japan is a masterpiece." Monumenta Nipponica "A clear and concise overview of the whole of Japanese history." History "Students and the ... general reader ... will profit from engagement with this book." English Historical Review "A History of Japan is one of the most perceptive and illuminating studies of Japan's history to have appeared in English in recent decades, and is likely to be widely used by teachers, students and researchers." Times Higher Education Supplement "Totman's work reflects its author's erudition, expansive vision, and humanism. It will suit the needs of instructors and many general readers perfectly." David Howell, Princeton University, for the Journal of Japanese Studies About the Author Conrad Totman is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He has also taught Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at Northwestern University. He is the author of ten previous books, including Japan before Perry: A Short History (1981), Early Modern Japan (1993), and Pre-industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective (2004).

About the Book Highlighting the roles and functions of three essential players--creators, producers, and intermediaries--this book leads readers to better understand the nature of creative industries and the impact that they have on business and culture. Book Synopsis Art and business are often described as worlds apart, even diametric opposites. And yet, these realms are close cousins in creative industries where firms bring cultural goods to market, attaching price tags to music, paintings, theater, literature, film, and fashion. Building on theories of value construction and cultural production, Culture and Commerce details the processes by which artistic worth is decoded, translated, and converted to economic value. Mukti Khaire introduces readers to three industry players: creators, producers (who bring to market and distribute cultural goods), and intermediaries (who critique and rave about them). Case studies of firms from Chanel and Penguin to tastemakers like the Pritzker Prize and The Sundance Institute illuminate how these professionals construct a vital value chain. Highlighting the role of "pioneer entrepreneurs"--who carve out space for radical, new product categories--Khaire illustrates how creative professionals influence our sense of value, shifting consumer behavior and our culture in deep, surprising ways. Review Quotes "Culture and Commerce speaks in particular to the field's interest in 'valuation' and the role of 'market intermediaries' in creative industries. Khaire gives us profound insight into these markets--their particularities, structures, dynamics, and processes."--Jesper Strandgaard "Copenhagen Business School, co-editor of Negotiating Values in the Creative Industries""[C]lever examples illustrate important lessons about effective market organization, particularly for students of both entrepreneurship and creativity. This book will be a useful pedagogical guide for these topics across audiences and broader course themes....[S]cholars of creative industries will find the book full of great examples of how some fundamental themes play out in the contemporary digital world."--Stephen Mezias "Administrative Science Quarterly""Full of fascinating cases that span art, food, and fashion, this book teaches us how creative industries tick. With measured analysis, Khaire lucidly lays bare the cultural value chain, demonstrating how entrepreneurship thrives--even in the notoriously unpredictable realm of art."--Ashley Mears "Boston University, author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model""In this wonderful and intellectually ambitious book, Mukti Khaire re-thinks culture at the intersection of economics and sociology. With carefully instantiated case studies, she leavens our understanding of how art and culture have worked, should work, and will work."--Rohit Deshpande "Harvard Business School""Mukti Khaire's study illuminates how culture and commerce interact while it analyzes the ways that entrepreneurship--a word frequently misused in the creative industries--enables positive social change. An invaluable tool for artists, managers, producers--anyone who works in or with the creative sector."----Ravi Rajan, President "California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)""The strength of the book is in its careful delineation of different categories of intermediaries and producers. This allows an impressive array of illustrative examples from across the diversity of the creative industries....[This book] is likely to be of use to students in applied social scientific, business-oriented forms of inquiry in outlining the persistent tensions between culture and commerce in artistic production. It also provides a useful reminder that the sociology of culture has some well-developed tools for, and an important role in, elaborating and deepening our understanding of these tensions."--David Wright "American Journal of Sociology""This remarkable book bridges the gap between art and business. It lucidly and convincingly reveals the structure and functioning of creativity in the marketplace. Probing key notions like artistic value, innovation, and circulation, Khaire throws light on how novelty is accepted and made intelligible."--Diana Sorensen "Harvard University" About the Author Mukti Khaire is the Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell Tech and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.