Kären Wigen

The Myth of Continents

A Critique of Metageography

In a thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Karen Wigen re-examine the basic geographical divisions we take for gr...

A Malleable Map

Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912

Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, ...

The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Kären Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the ch...

The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History

Retrospect and Prospect

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Regional Inversions

The Spatial Contours of Economic Change in the Southern Japanese Alps, 1750-1920

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