The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan

Born in Colorado, Thomas C. Smith received his B.A. from Santa Barbara College in 1938 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1948. He has served as professor of Japanese and East Asian history first at Stanford University and then at the University of California, Berkeley. Smith's work on the emergence of modern Japan has been among the most show more influential and has done much to shape Western understanding of the cultural and social meaning of modernity in Japan. Additionally, Smith has profoundly affected the ways in which the connection between rural communities and industrial growth is perceived. (Bowker Author Biography) show less