The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

版本: First Edition
语言: 英语
格式: 精装书
ISBN 10: 0520084209
ISBN 13: 9780520084209
出版日期: March 16th, 1995
出版商: University of California Press
页数: 356

类型: History

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.

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