Karen Wigen

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Meer

Probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title 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. Meer