The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 Hardback
by Karen Wigen
Part of the Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power series
Hardback
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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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:356 pages, 35 maps, 2 figs., 25 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/03/1995
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- ISBN:9780520084209
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:356 pages, 35 maps, 2 figs., 25 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:16/03/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520084209
