Japan in Print : Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Informationsfluss
Buchdruck
Printing.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Book Printing & Binding.
DESIGN > Book.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
Imprimerie > Japon > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Printing > Japan > History > 17th century.
Japan
Japan.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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