2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A quantitative estimate of the scale of agricultural civil engineering and an economical analysis of the irrigation customs
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21530348
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Soka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 経済史 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has built a database, which shows how many acres of cultivated fields were created in various projects of agricultural civil engineering, such as irrigation, deforesting, and reclamation in Tokugawa Japan. The database reveals that fields expanded greatly in the periods 1598-1674, 1726-1736, and 1820-1873 ; these periods had not been distinguished by the existing estimates which are based only on the number of the projects.
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