The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (eBook)

Kären Wigen (Autor)

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2023
356 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91436-0 (ISBN)

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Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Reihe/Serie: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Asian History • autonomous economic zone • central japan • Early Modern Japan • East Asia • Economic Development • Economics • 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
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91436-8 / 0520914368
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91436-0 / 9780520914360