Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments 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 Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Mary Elizabeth Berry is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (UC Press, 1994) and Hideyoshi (1982).