Cary Karacas: Cartographic Japan

Cover: 9780226073057 | Cartographic Japan | A History in Maps | Karen Wigen | Buch | Gebunden

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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.

Über den Autor

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.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780226073057
ISBN-10:	022607305X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wigen, Karen
Redaktion:	Karacas, Cary Wigen, Karen Fumiko, Sugimoto
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	292 x 222 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Cary Karacas (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2016
Gewicht:	1,469 kg

Artikel-ID: 121209534

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780226073057
ISBN-10:	022607305X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wigen, Karen
Redaktion:	Karacas, Cary Wigen, Karen Fumiko, Sugimoto
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	292 x 222 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Cary Karacas (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2016
Gewicht:	1,469 kg