Shinano in the nation -- Shinano up close -- Shinano in the world -- The poetry of statistics -- Pedagogies of place -- A pan-provincial press
Summary
Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, chronography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index
