Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period by Anthony Grafton, Mary Elizabeth Berry

Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period

Anthony Grafton, Mary Elizabeth Berry

342 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 subject...

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