Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
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A01=Kären Wigen
asian history
Author_Kären Wigen
autonomous economic zone
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central japan
early modern japan
east asia
economic development
economics
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geographical revolution
historical geography
imperial japan
imperial revolutions
industrial growth
industrial revolution
interdisciplinary study
japanese countryside
japanese history
nation building
political centralization
rural japan
silk trade
small settlements
social change
world powers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084209
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 1995
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Karen Wigen is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University.
