Was early modern Japan culturally integrated?

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Cultural integration in early modern Japan is illustrated by the proliferation of publications providing public information, including cartography, travel guides and urban directories. The texts suggest a complex process of social cohesion through an insistence on social relationship, as well as the development of mental habits for managing differences. Social cohesion was encouraged by the unified system created through the structural imagination of cartography, the appropriation of a common history in the travel guides, and the pluralistic social connections indicated by the urban directories.

Japan, Japanese history, National characteristics, Japanese, Japanese national characteristics

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State building in early-modern Europe: the case of France

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France provides a good model for the process of state formation in early modern Europe. A significant change occurred in the 16th century, when the central government became identified with the state and the notion of the res publica or the public good also became redefined as the state. The elements of family property and empire that contributed to the consolidation of the dynastic state were eliminated or altered, so that only the nation and the state remained.

France, National state, Nation state (Political science), French history

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