A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 Volume 17

by Kären Wigen and Kären E. Wigen

Book Overview

Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration ( ishin ) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing on a wide range of geographical documents from Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Wigen argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272765
• ISBN13: 9780520272767
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"