The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920: Volume 3 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520084209)

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, K舐en 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.

Author: K舐en Wigen
ISBN-10: 0520084209
ISBN-13: 9780520084209
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/16/1995
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.28w x 1.11d