TY  - GEN
T1  - The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920
T2  - Twentieth-century Japan ;
A1  - Wigen, Kären, 1958-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm43476127
AB  - 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.
OP  - 336
CN  - DS894.59.I53 W56 1995eb
SN  - 9780520914360
SN  - 0520914368
SN  - 0585108579
SN  - 9780585108575
SN  - 0520084209
SN  - 9780520084209
KW  - Ina Valley (Japan) : History.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - Japan : Ina Valley
KW  - Japan : History, 1185-1945
KW  - History
ER  -