The Resource Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period, Mary Elizabeth Berry
Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period, Mary Elizabeth Berry
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The item Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period, Mary Elizabeth Berry represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute.
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- Summary
- 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 subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Japan in Print shows how, as investigators collected and disseminated richly diverse data, they came to presume in their audience a standard of cultural literacy that changed anonymous consumers into an "us" bound by common frames of reference. This shared space of knowledge made society visible to itself and in the process subverted notions of status hierarchy. Berry demonstrates that the new public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by universal access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- !st paperback printing.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Contents
-
- 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores
- 2. The Library of Public Information
- 3. Maps Are Strange
- 4. Blood Right and Merit
- 5. The Freedom of the City
- 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy
- 7. Nation
- Isbn
- 9780520254176
- Label
- Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period
- Title
- Japan in print
- Title remainder
- information and nation in the early modern period
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Elizabeth Berry
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. Japan in Print shows how, as investigators collected and disseminated richly diverse data, they came to presume in their audience a standard of cultural literacy that changed anonymous consumers into an "us" bound by common frames of reference. This shared space of knowledge made society visible to itself and in the process subverted notions of status hierarchy. Berry demonstrates that the new public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by universal access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning
- Cataloging source
- IT-FiEUI
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Berry, Mary Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 686.209520909032
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Asia--local studies/global themes
- Series volume
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Printing
- Printing
- Label
- Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period, Mary Elizabeth Berry
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores -- 2. The Library of Public Information -- 3. Maps Are Strange -- 4. Blood Right and Merit -- 5. The Freedom of the City -- 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy -- 7. Nation
- Control code
- FIEb16685076
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- !st paperback printing.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520254176
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317122504
- Label
- Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period, Mary Elizabeth Berry
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- 1. A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores -- 2. The Library of Public Information -- 3. Maps Are Strange -- 4. Blood Right and Merit -- 5. The Freedom of the City -- 6. Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy -- 7. Nation
- Control code
- FIEb16685076
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- !st paperback printing.
- Extent
- xvii, 325 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520254176
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)317122504
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