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23%OFFKaren Wigen - Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps - 9780226073057 - V9780226073057
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Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps

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Description for Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226073057
SKU
V9780226073057
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Ref
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About Karen Wigen
Karen Wigen is professor of history at Stanford University. Sugimoto Fumiko is associate professor of early modern materials at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute. Cary Karacas is associate professor of geography at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Reviews for Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
This capacious and thoughtful volume is simultaneously three books. It is an illustrated collection of essays on Japanese cartography for a broad audience; it is a skilfully curated cartographic trove dating from the late sixteenth century to the present day; last but not least, it offers a unique template for teaching the history of Japan through maps, both in the ... Read more

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