The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
작성자
Kären E. Wigen
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History
형식
하드커버
페이지
356
언어
영어
출판됨
Mar 16, 1995
출판사
University of California Press
판
First Edition
ISBN-10
0520084209
ISBN-13
9780520084209
설명
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.
