Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period /
Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to market...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
| Publicado: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©2006.
|
| Colección: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
12. |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzgf |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A traveling clerk goes to the bookstores
- 2. The library of public information
- 3. Maps are strange
- 4. Blood right and merit
- 5. The freedom of the city
- 6. Cultural custody, cultural literacy
- 7. Nation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.