The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Kären Wigen
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University of California Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
silk trade, imperial japan, japanese countryside, small settlements, nation building, east asia, geographical revolution, rural japan, industrial growth, japanese history, imperial revolutions, economics, industrial revolution, central japan, early modern japan, economic development, autonomous economic zone, historical geography, interdisciplinary study, asian history, social change, world powers, political centralization