Japan in Print - Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period

Informationen zum Autor Mary Elizabeth Berry is Professor of History at the University of California! Berkeley. She is the author of The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (UC Press! 1994) and Hideyoshi (1982). Klappentext "Anyone interested in the history of media and communications should read Beth Berry's extraordinary book. Learned! lucid! and lively! it has much to teach students of premodern societies in Europe and elsewhere."-Anthony Grafton! Henry Putnam University Professor of History! Princeton University "In Japan in Print ! Mary Elizabeth Berry crisply condenses a remarkable amount of primary research on difficult and little-known materials! and it interprets those materials in a highly original framework. The scholarship is superb! and the writing is as masterful as the research. Anyone interested in East Asian cultural production will find this compelling reading."-Kären E. Wigen! author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery! 1750-1920 "This is a very important book! not only for its insights into a vast body of previously overlooked texts! but also for its methodology. While historians have known that early modern Japan produced maps! for example! no one has heretofore compared them to their medieval predecessors or examined them for what they say about an emerging Japanese cartographic imagination. This is a highly original work! and it will change the field."-Anne Walthall! author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration Zusammenfassung Considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. This book provides an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores 2. The Library of Public Information 3. Maps Are Strange 4. Blood Right and Merit 5. The Freedom of the City 6. Cultural Custody! Cultural Literacy 7. Nation Notes Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Mary Elizabeth Berry, Mary Elizabeth/ Grafton Berry
• Assisted by: Anthony Grafton (Foreword), Grafton Anthony (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9780520254176
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25417-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies/Global The; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Asian History, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600