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Ancient Map, Modern State: Toward a Geo-History of the Meiji Restoration
Ancient Map, Modern State: Toward a Geo-History of the Meiji Restoration
The continuing career of Shinano Province as present-day Nagano Prefecture suggests that the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited classical geography to the cause of administrative reform. Under the guise of new toponyms, nineteenth-century oligarchs effectively reinscribed an ancient set of imperial boundaries on the landscape of modern Japan. This classicizing strategy was not […]
From “State Interference to the ‘Return to the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation from the Old Gilded Age to the New
From “State Interference to the ‘Return to the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation from the Old Gilded Age to the New
Professor Furner's talk will be the final session in Spring quarter of the Seminar on Work, Labor, and Political Economy. The public is invited to attend. hm 5/22/09