Product Description: The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.

Product Description: This study examines and compares the historical role of money-lenders and local and regional bankers in the modern economic history of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book comprises eight regional case studies and an introductory survey and presents new research findings which challenge the conventional views that indigenous credit suppliers usually obstructed economic development in the Third World and that the supply of private credit for development purposes was virtually monopolized by Western metropolitan sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Japan is an economic power of global significance; it is also the world's largest single national importer of oil. These two facts alone are sufficient to indicate the significance of Japan's relationship with the Middle East. But in fact, Japan's particularly strong interests in the Middle East extend well beyond oil, and include banking, investment, and an increasing concern with economic assistance...read more