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Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period /

Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to market...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berry, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2006.
Colección:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. A traveling clerk goes to the bookstores
  • 2. The library of public information
  • 3. Maps are strange
  • 4. Blood right and merit
  • 5. The freedom of the city
  • 6. Cultural custody, cultural literacy
  • 7. Nation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.