Author: Wigen, Karen
Title: The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,336 pp, Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 3.. Textual maps & tables. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Region Constructed, 1750-1860: Ina in the Tokugawa Space- Economy: The Making of a Trade Corridor; The Landscape of Protoindustrial Production as Contested Terrain; Spatial & Social Differentiation; Mobilizing for Silk: The First Quarter-Century; Crisis & Consolidation: The Shifting Locus of Power; Precarious Prosperity: Industrial Restructuring & Regional Transformation, 1895-1920; Regional Inversion: The Shifting Matrix of Production, Power & Place.

Keywords: Japanese Economic History, Tokugawa Japan, East Asia, Ina Valley, Economy, Economics, Development, Shimoina, Shinano Province