中部日本における「維新」の地理学1600-1912年 A Malleable Map : Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (Asia : Local Studies/global Themes)

Wigen, Karen

Univ of California Pr（2010/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 319 p.／サイズ 16 color maps, 20 b/w maps
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520259188
• DDC分類 911.520903

基本説明

New in paparback. Hardcover was published in 2010. Probes regional cartography, chorography, 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.

Full Description

Karen 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'etat 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.

Contents

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