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Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
Mary Elizabeth Berry
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Description for Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
Paperback. 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. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 343 pages, 34 line illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion ... Read more
A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
Series
Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254176
SKU
V9780520254176
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About Mary Elizabeth Berry
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).
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