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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
12. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520941465 0520941462 1423752643 9781423752646 9780520254176 0520254171 1282360469 9781282360464 |