The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

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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.


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 gate

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520084209
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780520914360
Topic
History
Subtopic
Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Maps, Figures, and Tables
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Abbreviations
  8. CHAPTER ONE Introduction
  9. PART ONE The Region Constructed, 1750-1860
  10. CHAPTER TWO Ina in the Tokugawa Space-Economy The Making of a Trade Corridor
  11. CHAPTER THREE The Landscape of Protoindustrial Production as Contested Terrain
  12. CHAPTER FOUR Spatial and Social Differentiation
  13. PART TWO The Region Inverted, 1860-1920
  14. CHAPTER FIVE Mobilizing for Silk The First Quarter-Century
  15. CHAPTER SIX Crisis and Consolidation The Shifting Locus of Power
  16. CHAPTER SEVEN Precarious Prosperity Industrial Restructuring and Regional Transformation, 1895-1920
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT Regional Inversions The Shifting Matrix of Production, Power, and Place
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index

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