Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by David L. Howell

In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explicitly superficial customs--hairstyle, clothing, and personal names-- served to distinguish the "civilized" realm of the Japanese from the "barbarian" realm...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520240855
• ISBN13: 9780520240858
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"