Japan in print :: information and nation in the early modern period /

Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to market...

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1. Verfasser: Berry, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 12.
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Zusammenfassung:Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index.
ISBN:9780520941465
0520941462
1423752643
9781423752646
9780520254176
0520254171
1282360469
9781282360464

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