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5 produkter
Time in Maps
From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era
Av Karen Wigen, Caroline Winterer
Inbunden, 2020
489 kr
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The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in static maps that offer lessons for us today. In …
Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Av Karen Wigen
E-bok, 1995
925 kr
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Contending that Japan''s industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären 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 Karen Wigen, Martin W. Lewis
E-bok, 1997
535 kr
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In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären 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 Karen Wigen
E-bok, 2010
553 kr
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Kären 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’état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. …
Seascapes
Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges
Av Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
310 kr
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Historians have only recently begun to chart the experiences of maritime regions in rich detail and penetrate the historical processes at work there. Seascapes makes a major contribution to these efforts by bringing together original scholarship on historical issues arising from maritime regions …
