By Kären Wigen
Contending that Japan's commercial and imperial revolutions have been additionally geographical revolutions, K?ren Wigen's interdisciplinary learn analyzes the altering spatial order of the geographical region in early smooth Japan. Her concentration, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous inside of critical Japan. utilizing tools drawn from ancient geography and financial improvement, Wigen maps the valley's changes--from a zone of small settlements associated in an self reliant monetary quarter, to its transformation right into a peripheral a part of the worldwide silk alternate, depending on the country. but the techniques that introduced those changes--industrial development and political centralization--were the most important to Japan's upward push to imperial energy. Wigen's elucidation of this makes her e-book compelling examining for a huge viewers.
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The Journal of Historical Geography is also a useful point of departure. 13. Knox and Agnew 1989:63. The literature to which the authors refer is reviewed in N. Smith 1989 and Corbridge 1989. 14. Among recent signs of a rapprochement, one might note the 1989 anthology Geographic Perspectil'es in History, edited by Eugene Genovese and Leonard Hochberg; the December 1990 issue of the American Historical RevieJV, featuring three articles said to exemplifY "a new interest in combining historical and geographical analysis"; and the creation in 1991 of a Historical Geography Network within the Social Science History Association.
As I have suggested, analyzing their intersection requires spanning a methodological cleavage between history and geography. At the same time, reconstructing Shimoina's incorporation into the modern Japanese state entails negotiating another disciplinary divide: the deep cleft within Japanese historiography between the early modern and the modern. It is to this second juncture that the discussion now turns. The Temporal Framework The years 1750 and 1920 mark unusual end points for an inquiry into Japanese history.
Important collections of essays that cross the Tokugawa/Meiji watershed include Najita and Koschmann 1982, Jansen and Rozman 1986, and Jansen 1989. 27. , T. Smith 1959, Lockwood 1965, and Hanley and Yamamura 1977). Obvious exceptions include studies of the Reformation itself(Craig 1961, Jansen 1961, and Totman 1980), as well as essays on the midcentury crisis as a liminal moment in the creation of a new national consciousness (Harootunian 1988), but these represent fundamentally different gcnres from the long-term socioeconomic research that is of interest here.