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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Hardcover, New)
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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 3
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Total price: R1,883
Discovery Miles: 18 830
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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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