The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 /

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Author / Creator:	Wigen, Kären, 1958-
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.
Subject:	Ina Valley (Japan) -- History. Japan -- Ina Valley. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105507

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ISBN:	9780520914360 0520914368 0585108579 9780585108575 0520084209 9780520084209
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen 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.
Other form:	Print version: Wigen, Kären, 1958- Making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1995 0520084209

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
pt. 1. The Region Constructed, 1750-1860. 2. Ina in the Tokugawa Space-Economy: The Making of a Trade Corridor. 3. The Landscape of Protoindustrial Production as Contested Terrain. 4. Spatial and Social Differentiation
pt. 2. The Region Inverted, 1860-1920. 5. Mobilizing for Silk: The First Quarter-Century. 6. Crisis and Consolidation: The Shifting Locus of Power. 7. Precarious Prosperity: Industrial Restructuring and Regional Transformation, 1895-1920. 8. Regional Inversions: The Shifting Matrix of Production, Power, and Place.

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