The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 /

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...

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Auteur principal: Wigen, Kären, 1958-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1995.
Collection:Twentieth-century Japan ; 3.
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Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • pt. 1. The Region Constructed, 1750-1860. 2. Ina in the Tokugawa Space-Economy: The Making of a Trade Corridor. 3. The Landscape of Protoindustrial Production as Contested Terrain. 4. Spatial and Social Differentiation
  • pt. 2. The Region Inverted, 1860-1920. 5. Mobilizing for Silk: The First Quarter-Century. 6. Crisis and Consolidation: The Shifting Locus of Power. 7. Precarious Prosperity: Industrial Restructuring and Regional Transformation, 1895-1920. 8. Regional Inversions: The Shifting Matrix of Production, Power, and Place.