The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920: Volume 3

by Kären E. Wigen

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...

• 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"