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Cartographic Japan - A History in Maps

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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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. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet exquisite scrolls depicting sea and land routes. Today, Japanese people are zealous producers and consumers of cartography, and maps are an integral part of daily life. But this was not always the case: a thousand years ago, maps were solely a privilege of the ruling elite in Japan. Only in the past four hundred years has Japanese cartography truly taken off, and between the dawn of Japan's cartographic explosion and today, the nation's society and landscape have undergone major transformations. At every point, maps have documented those monumental changes. Cartographic Japan offers a rich introduction to the resulting treasure trove, with close analysis of one hundred maps from the late 1500s to the present day, each one treated as a distinctive window onto Japan's tumultuous history. Sixty distinguished contributors-hailing from Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia-uncover the meanings behind a key selection of these maps, situating them in historical context and explaining how they were made, read, and used at the time. With more than one hundred gorgeous full-color illustrations, Cartographic Japan offers an enlightening tour of Japan's magnificent cartographic archive.

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Kären Wigen is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of history at Stanford University. Sugimoto Fumiko is professor of history at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute. Cary Karacas is associate professor of geography at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori et al, Cary Karacas, Fumiko Sugimoto, Karen Wigen, Karen Sugimoto Wigen
Con la collaborazione di Sugimoto Fumiko (Editore), Cary Karacas (Editore), Karacas Cary (Editore), Karen Wigen (Editore), Kären Wigen (Editore)
Editore University Of Chicago Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 31.12.2015
 
EAN 9780226073057
ISBN 978-0-226-07305-7
Pagine 336
Dimensioni 226 mm x 286 mm x 25 mm
Categorie Saggistica > Storia > Altro

Japan, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Asian History, Historical maps and atlases, Historical maps & atlases

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