The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 /
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| Author / Creator: | Wigen, Kären, 1958- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1995. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Twentieth-century Japan : the emergence of a world power ; 3 Twentieth-century Japan ; 3. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105507 |
| Summary: | Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Japan. Using methods drawn from historical geography and economic development, Wigen maps the valley's changes--from a region of small settlements linked in an autonomous economic zone, to its transformation into a peripheral part of the global silk trade, dependent on the state. Yet the processes that brought these changes--industrial growth and political centralization--were crucial to Japan's rise to imperial power. Wigen's elucidation of this makes her book compelling reading for a broad audience.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gate |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914360 0520914368 0585108579 9780585108575 0520084209 9780520084209 |