A Mallaeble Map - Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27276-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 340 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes

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 (1600–1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868–1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Nor were they alone; provincial men of letters played an equally critical role in bringing imperial geography back to life in the countryside. To substantiate these claims, Wigen traces the continuing career of the classical court’s most important unit of governance—the province—in central Honshu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wigen, Karen

Wigen, Kären

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
List of Illustrations

Conventions Followed in the Text

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. A Province Defined

1. Shinano in the Nation

2. Shinano Up Close

3. Shinano in the World

Part Two. A Province Restored

4. The Poetry of Statistics

5. Pedagogies of Place

6. A Pan-Provincial Press

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kären Wigen is Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery and co-author of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, both from UC Press.