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6 produkter
Cartographic Japan
A History in Maps
Av Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
492 kr
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Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. …
Territorial Imaginaries
Beyond the Sovereign Map
Av Kären Wigen
Inbunden, 2025
403 kr
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Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and political sovereignty, whether past or present. For Territorial Imaginaries, editor Kären Wigen has …
Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Av Kären Wigen
Inbunden, 1995
794 kr
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Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central …
Myth of Continents
A Critique of Metageography
Av Martin W. Lewis, Kären Wigen
Häftad, 1997
315 kr
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In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Karen Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First …
Malleable Map
Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912
Av Kären Wigen
Häftad, 2012
333 kr
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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. …
Oceanic Japan
The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History
Av David R. Armitage, Gregory Clancey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
869 kr
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Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains …
