CHAPTER III NOTES

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By invading the country and urbanizing it, the city is, more than anything else, destroying the very source of its life.

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Please note that I do not support any of the barbarisms perpetrated by Pol Pot.

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Since in those days (the feudal age) the feudal lords seized food directly from the farmers, there was no need to include the farmers in the monetary economy. The farmers were dragged into the monetary economy when the Meiji government decreed the switch from payment in kind to cash payment.

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A literal rendering of one of the Japanese words for "farmer."
(Translator's note).

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