Graduate School of Economics and Manegement/Faculty of Economics, Tohoku University
Yoh Kawana, Prof., Ph.D.（University of Leicester）



Economic and Urban History (EUH)

East Asian ・ West European Perspectives


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Profile and Research Interests

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Professor Kawana specializes in economic, social and urban history and has extensive research experience in UK universities. His recent studies have revealed significant areas of informality in early modern English towns and he is now working on a project on the pre-modern English economy, following the publication of a monograph on 'formality' and 'informality' in early modern Leicester. He is also exploring new ideas in the context of much broader historical issues, such as the emergence of modern European and Asian economies in comparative perspectives.

Opportunities for International Students
Lectures and seminars are on offer in English for both home and international students. Professor Kawana is currently running an English lecture series on “Comparative Economic History” for the GPEM programme. Students are encouraged to understand the differences and similarities between Asian and European economies from a wider historical perspective. Prospective research students should contact the Faculty of Economics for further information. Those who wish to study the Comparative History of Asia and Europe are especially welcome.
Lectures and Seminars
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In this lecture series, students are expected to come to understand the basic concepts and tools used in the study of Economic History, but more importantly, to recognize the power of the historical past and how it shaped the structure of advanced capitalist economies in the world. To assist our global learning process for international students, each class will be taught in both English and Japanese.

Undergraduate
Introduction to Economic History
Economic History（bilingual）
Economic History of Western Europe（bilingual）
Specialist Reading Class（bilingual）
Postgraduate
Comparative Economic History（English）
Economic History of Western Europe（bilingual）
Economic and Business History
GPEM Workshop（English）



Publications and Conference Papers
Books
The Formality and Informality in Early Modern English Towns (Tokyo, 2010)

Articles
‘The transformation of poor relief and caring facilities in medieval England. A history of urban hospitals’, The Keizai Gaku, Annual Report of Economic Society, vol. 76 (2018)

‘The growth of handicraft industries in medieval and early modern England: An urban history’, The Keizai Gaku, Annual Report of Economic Society, vol. 74 (2014)

‘State formation during the 'long seventeenth century': recent studies on public authority and civility in early modern England,’Socio-Economic History, vol. 73 (2007)

‘Trade, Sociability, and Governance in an English Incorporated Borough: 'Formal' and 'Informal' Worlds in Leicester, c.1570-1640,’ Urban History, vol. 33, 3 (2006)

‘A survey of urbanization in the English Midlands, c.1550-1750,’ The Keizai Gaku, Annual Report of Economic Society, vol. 65, 47-58 (2004)

‘Urban process in early modern England: The case of county town Leicester,’ The Comparative Urban History Review, vol. 19 (2000)

‘The impact of London's growth in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: A new approach,’ Annual Report of the Economic Society of Tohoku University, vol. 61（1999）, 353-67		 Chapters

‘Commercialisation in medieval and early modern England: From the point of view of Urban History,’ in T. Nakano et al., eds., Exploring urban spaces in eighteenth-century English towns (Tokyo, 2012)

‘The changing economic foundation of an early modern English town: The case of an inland town, Leicester,’ in Studies on English Urban History: Towns and Regions, co-edited by the Study Group of English Urban and Rural Communities and the Tohoku University Study Group of Economic and Business History (Tokyo, 2004)

Conference Papers

The 7th International Conference on Urban History, ‘The urban foundation of the regional economy peripheral towns in the English Midlands, c.1550-1700,’ Athens, Oct. 2004

The 6th International Conference on Urban History, Session Organisaer, ‘The formal and informal economies in early modern European and Asian cities,’ Edinburgh, Sept. 2002




― New Research in Economic and Urban History ―
  Public Policies    Business Communities 

▼James Kai-sing Kung,‘Autarky and the Rise and Fall of Piracy in Ming China’, The Journal of Economic History, vol. 74 (2014), pp. 509-34. OPAC access≫

▼Mcintosh, M.,‘Poor relief in Elizabethan English communities: an analysis of Collectors' accounts’, The Economic History Review, vol. 67 (2014), pp. 331-57. OPAC access≫

▼Deringer, W. P.,‘Finding the money: Public accounting,political arithmetic,and probability in the 1690s’, Journal of British Studies, vol. 52 (2013), pp. 638-68. OPAC access≫

▼Dudley, C.,‘Party politics, political economy, and economic developmnet in early eighteenth-century Britain’, The Economic History Review, vol. 66 (2013), pp.1084-1100. OPAC access≫

▼Styles, J.,‘Spinners and the law: Regulating yarn standards in the English worsted industries, 1550-1800’, Textile History, vol. 44 (2013), pp. 145-70. OPAC access≫

▼Schiltz, M.,‘Money on the road to empire: Japan's adoption of gold monometallism, 1873-97’, The Economic History Review, vol. 65 (2012), pp. 1147-68. OPAC access≫
 ▼Collinge, P., ‘A Genteel hand in the malt business: Barbara Ford (1755-1840) of Ashbourne’, Midland History, vol. 39 (2014), pp.110-32.OPAC access≫


▼Feldman, R., ‘Dyeing and the London dyers' company: Membership, craft, and knowledge transmission, 1649-1829’, The London Journal, vol. 39 (2014), pp. 37-58. OPAC access≫

▼Bennett, R. J., ‘Network interlocks: The connected emergence of chambers of commerce and provicial banks in the British Isles, 1767-1823’, Business History, vol. 55 (2013), pp. 1288-317. OPAC access≫

▼Gelderblom, O. et al.,‘The formative years of the modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602-1623’, The Journal of Economic History, vol. 73 (2013), pp. 1050-76. OPAC access≫

▼Goddard, Richard, ‘Medieval business networks: St Mary's guild and the borough court in later medieval Nottingham’, Urban History, vol. 40 （2013）, pp. 416-41. OPAC access≫

▼Hashino, T. and Otsuka, K., ‘Hand looms, power looms, and changing production organizations: the case of the Kiryū weaving district in early twentieth‐century Japan’, The Economic History Review, vol. 66 (2013), pp. 785-804. OPAC access≫
  Civic Societies  
▼Bennett, R. J.,‘Searching for new models of buisness representation: The Liverpool committee or board of trade, 1775-1794’, Northern History, vol. 51 (2014), pp. 263-89. OPAC access≫

▼Lee, J. S.,‘Piped water supplies managed by civic bodies in medieval English towns’, Urban History, vol. 41 (2014), pp. 369-93. OPAC access≫

▼Latham, M.,‘From oligarchy to a "rate payer's democracy": the evolution of the Corporation of London’, Urban History, vol. 39 (2012), pp. 225-45. OPAC access≫












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