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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Twentieth-Century Japan : the Emergence of a World Power)

By Karen Wigen

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0520084209, 9780520084209
LCC
DS894.59.I53 W56 1995
Open Library ID
OL1425285M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10226469 bytes)
Pages
353\353
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, K?ren 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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