Description
Book SynopsisProbes 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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
