The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920: Volume 3
(Book #3 in the Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power Series)
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Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, K ren 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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520084209
ISBN13:9780520084209
Release Date:March 1995
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:356 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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