The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 / / Kären Wigen and Kären Wigen

• Autore: Wigen Kären <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 336 p. ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 952/.1
• Soggetto geografico: Ina Valley (Japan) History; Japan History, 1185-1945
• Persona (resp. second.): WigenKären <1958->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Ina in the Tokugawa Space-Economy -- CHAPTER THREE. The Landscape of Protoindustrial Production as Contested Terrain -- CHAPTER FOUR. Spatial and Social Differentiation -- CHAPTER FIVE. Mobilizing for Silk -- CHAPTER SIX. Crisis and Consolidation -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Precarious Prosperity -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Regional Inversions -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
• ISBN: 0-520-91436-8; 0-585-10857-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247903403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Twentieth-century Japan ; ; Volume 3.