Matsuda's conceptual approach opens fresh ways of seeing the importance of writing and the democratized print culture of the late nineteenth century. It also casts new light of understanding on the expansion of state records and files (the memory of state"). And he fruitfully brings his framework to bear on the functions of such new "memory machines" as photography and cinema..

Journal of Social History

Matsuda's conceptual approach opens fresh ways of seeing the importance of writing and the democratized print culture of the late nineteenth century. It also casts new light of understanding on the expansion of state records and files (the memory of state). And he fruitfully brings his framework to bear on the functions of such new "memory machines" as photography and cinema..

Journal of social history