Kären Wigen
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Geographer and historian
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Kären Wigen's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geography University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kären Esther Wigen is an American historian, geographer, author and educator. She is a history professor at Stanford University. Early life and education Wigen was born in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1980, where she studied Japanese literature. She earned her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in geography in 1990.
Kären Wigen's Published Works
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Published Works
- A Maritime Response to the Crisis in Area Studies (1999) (74)
- The making of a Japanese periphery, 1750-1920 (1995) (49)
- Culture, Power, and Place: The New Landscapes of East Asian Regionalism (1999) (32)
- The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History: Retrospect and Prospect (1992) (20)
- Discovering the Japanese Alps: Meiji Mountaineering and the Quest for Geographical Enlightenment (2005) (17)
- The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century (1999) (14)
- A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010) (13)
- Robert K. Batchelor. London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689. Timothy Brook. Mr. Selden's Map of China: Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer. (2015) (12)
- Special Issue: Geographies at Work in Asian History (2000) (6)
- The History of Cartography, vol. 2, bk. 2, Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies ed. by J. B. Harley, David Woodward (1996) (6)
- Teaching About Home: Geography at Work in the Prewar Nagano Classroom (2000) (6)
- 9. Cartographies of Connection: Ocean Maps as Metaphors for Interarea History (2011) (5)
- Mapping Early Modernity: Geographical Meditations on a Comparative Concept (1995) (3)
- Third Worldism or Globalism? Reply to James M. Blaut's Review of The Myth of Continents (2000) (3)
- Politics and Piety in Japanese Native-Place Studies: The Rhetoric of Solidarity in Shinano (1996) (3)
- Time in Maps (2020) (2)
- Regional inversions : the spatial contours of economic change in the Southern Japanese Alps, 1750-1920 (1990) (2)
- THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINENTS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTINENTAL SCHEME (2019) (1)
- The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination (2022) (1)
- Introduction to "Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the Gaihōzu" (2012) (1)
- Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan . By Philip C. Brown. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. xv, 268 pp. $52.00 (cloth). (2012) (1)
- Introduction (2012) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. Ina in the Tokugawa Space-Economy: The Making of a Trade Corridor (1995) (0)
- Japoniæ Insulæ. The Mapping of Japan: Historical Introduction and Cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan to 1800. By Jason C. Hubbard (2013) (0)
- Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modem Era, edited by James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1994. $42.50. (1997) (0)
- Gary Leupp, Servants, Laborers, and Shophands in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii + 237 [264 pages, 36 tables, appendix, notes, index]. $29.95.) (1993) (0)
- notes on the contributors (1984) (0)
- Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 344 pp. Index. Endnotes. $55.00 Cloth. $19.95. Paper. (1998) (0)
- Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer (review) (2019) (0)
- Jeffrey P. Mass, editor. The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 504. $65.00 (1999) (0)
- Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt When Maps Become the World (2021) (0)
- Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. By Joshua A. Fogel (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2009) 206 pp. $35.00 (2010) (0)
- The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson . By Naff William E.. Edited by Rimer J. Thomas. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. 664 pp. $49.00 (cloth). (2011) (0)
- Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan, and: The Tōkaidō Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan (review) (2010) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2005) (0)
- Erratum (2001) (0)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Regional Inversions: The Shifting Matrix of Production, Power, and Place (1995) (0)
- Seeing Like a Pilgrim: The Alpine Imaginary of Early Modern Japanese Maps (2005) (0)
- Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time (review) (2010) (0)
- Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan, and: To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions (review) (2005) (0)
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