Tabla de Contenidos: “…., c.1705-11 -- How to build a giant cartouche : Nicolas de Fer, Carte de la mer du Sud et de la mer du Nord, 1713 -- Advertising makes its entrance : George Willdey, Map of North America, 1715 -- The collapse of the Mississippi bubble : Matthäus Seutter, Accurata delineatio Ludovicianae vel Gallice Louisiane, c.1728 -- "The link of the human race for both utility and pleasure" : Matthäus Seutter, Postarum seu cursorum publicorum diverticula en mansiones per Germaniam, c.1731 -- Kill the cannibals and convert the rest : Jean-Baptiste Nolin, II, L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus récentes, 1740 -- The cartographer and the shogun : Matthäus Seutter, Regni Japoniae nova mappa geographica, c.1745 -- The illusionistic roll of the cartouche : Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Carte de la terre des Hebreux ou Israelites, 1745 -- A cartographic balancing act : Matthäus Seutter, Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada, c.1756 -- Impartial border, Partisan cartouche : Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla, Mapa geografico de America Meridional, 1775 -- A tactile illusion that legitimates the map : Henry Pelham, A plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, 1777 -- Fighting back against colonial cartography : José Joaquim da Rocha, Mappa da Comarca do Sabará pertencente a Capitania de Minas Gerais (c.1778) -- The actors begin to leave the stage : Jean Janvier, Maps of 1761, 1769, and 1774; Robert de Vaugondy, Map of 1778; John Purdy, Map of 1809 -- A map on a map on a map : John Randel, Jr., The City of New York as Laid Out by the Commissioners, 1821.…”

“…The households studied here differ in locale and in status-from samurai to outcaste, peasant to merchant-but what unites them is life within the social order of the Tokugawa shogunate. The circumstances and choices that made one household unlike another were framed, then as now, by prevailing laws, norms, and controls on resources. …”

“…Its answer, like those of the shoguns of Tokugawa Japan, the tsars of imperial Russia, and the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, was to develop a "service elite" that institutionalized an exchange of hereditary service for hereditary privilege. …”

“…The works were written during the period from the 1850s to the 1980s, a timespan during which Japan became, in stages, more open to the outside world after a long isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate. From the perspective of “Japanology,” one can discern three distinct periods of rising interest in the country from abroad. …”