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David L. Howell is Professor of Japanese Historical past at Harvard College and Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. He obtained his B.A. from the College of Hawai’i at Hilo and Ph.D. in Historical past from Princeton College. He taught on the College of Texas at Austin and Princeton earlier than becoming a member of the Harvard college in 2010. Howell is the writer of Capitalism from Inside: Economic system, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (1995) and Geographies of Id in Nineteenth-Century Japan (2005) in addition to quite a few articles.
Howell’s analysis focuses on the social historical past of Japan within the Tokugawa (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) durations. He’s notably within the methods altering political and financial establishments affected the lives and livelihoods of abnormal folks over the course of the nineteenth century. His present initiatives embrace a brief survey of the Meiji Restoration interval and a historical past of human waste and rubbish within the cities of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan. He’s additionally a co-editor of a brand new version of the Cambridge Historical past of Japan, which is scheduled for publication in three volumes in 2020.
