Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Toward the Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy 1
6. Part I: Public Finance and Regional Society in Early Modern Japan
7. Introduction 13
8. 2. From “Feudal” Lords to Local Notables: The Role of Regional Society in Public Goods Provision from Early Modern to Modern Japan 17
9. 3. Samurai and Peasants in the Civil Administration of Early Modern Japan 38
10. 4. Outsourcing the Lord’s Finance: An Origin of Local Public Finance in Early Modern Japan 57
11. Part II: Coping with Poverty and Famine
12. Introduction 75
13. 5. Sanctions, Targetism, and Village Autonomy: Poor Relief in Early Modern Rural Japan 78
14. 6. Coping with Risk in the Seventeenth Century: The First Age of the English Old Poor Law: A Regional Study 100
15. 7. Coping with Poverty in Rural Brandenburg: The Role of Lords and State in the Late Eighteenth Century 118
16. 8. Coping with Poverty and Famine: Material Welfare, Public Goods, and Chinese Approaches to Governance 130
17. Part III: Building Infrastructure
18. Introduction 147
19. 9. The Development of Civil Engineering Projects and Village Communities in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Japan 150
20. 10. Rulers and Ruled in Flood Protection during the Eighteenth Century: The Prussian Example 172
21. 11. Infrastructure Maintenance in the Jifu Region, Beijing Metropolitan Region during the Eighteenth Century 202
22. 12. Provided for Public Welfare: Traffic Infrastructure and “The Bonum Commune Topos” with Examples from Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Brandenburg Electorate 216
23. Part IV: Managing the Forest
24. Introduction 235
25. 13. Lords’ Forestry for People’s Basic Needs: Evidence from Prussia’s Royal Domains and Forests during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 238
26. 14. The Role of Villagers in Domain and State Forest Management: Japan’s Path from Tokugawa Period to the Early Twentieth Century 255
27. 15. Forests as Commons in Early Modern China: An Analysis of Legal Cases 276
28. 16. Public Goods and Economy in the Early Modern Era—New Perspectives on Modern Economies and Contemporary Environmental Concerns 292
29. Contributors 315
30. Index 319