Research Interests for Simon Partner

Research Interests:

Late 19th and 20th-century Japanese history Focusing on: growth of consumer markets; technology and social change; Japanese rural society

Representative Publications
  1. Jackson, E; Partner, S, Bull City Survivor: Standing up to a Hard Life in a Southern City (2013), MacFarland & Company, Inc. [author's comments]
  2. Partner, S, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925 (May, 2009), University of California Press
  3. Partner, S, Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan (2004), University of California Press [102-1008339-5256135[abs]
  4. Partner, S, Assembled in Japan: Electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer (April, 2023), pp. 1-317, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 9780520219397 (292 pages.) [102-1008339-5256135[abs]
  5. Partner, S, Peasants into citizens?: The Meiji village in the Russo-Japanese war, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 62 no. 2 (January, 2007), pp. 179-209, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  6. Partner, S, Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Twentieth Century Japan, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 56 no. 4 (December, 2001)
  7. Partner, S, Brightening Country Lives: Selling Electrical Goods in the Japanese Countryside, 1950–1970, Enterprise and Society, vol. 1 no. 4 (January, 2000), pp. 762-784, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi[abs]