A malleable map : geographies of restoration in central Japan, 1600-1912 /

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Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, chronography, 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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wigen, Kären, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Colección:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 17.
Temas:
Cartography > Japan > History.
Cartographie > Japon > Histoire.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Administrative and political divisions.
Cartography.
Historical geography.
Nagano-ken (Japan) > Historical geography.
Nagano-ken (Japan) > History.
Japan > Administrative and political divisions > History.
Japan > Maps > History.
Japan > Historical geography.
Nagano (Japon : Ken) > Géographie historique.
Japan.
Japan > Nagano-ken.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, chronography, 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 319 pages, 16 pages of plates) : maps (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
ISBN:9780520945807
0520945808
1282697692
9781282697690
9786612697692
6612697695

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