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Author : Paul Kreitman
Release : 2023-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 702/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Japan's Ocean Borderlands by : Paul Kreitman
Download or read book Japan's Ocean Borderlands written by Paul Kreitman. This book was released on 2023-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global environmental history of Japan's disputed desert islands since the mid-nineteenth century.
Author : Paul Kreitman
Release : 2023-04-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 976/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Japan's Ocean Borderlands by : Paul Kreitman
Download or read book Japan's Ocean Borderlands written by Paul Kreitman. This book was released on 2023-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman shows how the politics of conservation have entangled with the politics of sovereignty since the emergence of the modern Japanese state in the mid-nineteenth century. Using case studies ranging from Hawai'i to the Bonin Islands to the Senkaku (Ch: Diaoyu) Isles to the South China Sea, he explores how bird islands on the distant margins of the Japanese archipelago and beyond transformed from sites of resource extraction to outposts of empire and from wartime battlegrounds to nature reserves. This study examines how interactions between birds, bird products, bureaucrats, speculators, sailors, soldiers, scientists and conservationists shaped ongoing claims to sovereignty over oceanic spaces. It considers what the history of desert islands shows us about imperial and post-imperial power, the web of political, economic and ecological connections between islands and oceans, and about the relationship between sovereignty, territory and environment in the modern world.
Author : Joseph A. Seeley
Release : 2024-10-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Border of Water and Ice by : Joseph A. Seeley
Download or read book Border of Water and Ice written by Joseph A. Seeley. This book was released on 2024-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ice, timber-cutters, anti-Japanese guerrillas, smugglers, and other borderland actors also spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan's wider political and economic power. Drawing on archival sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, Seeley tells the story of the river and the imperial border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons.
Author : Seiji Shirane
Release : 2022-12-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperial Gateway by : Seiji Shirane
Download or read book Imperial Gateway written by Seiji Shirane. This book was released on 2022-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible, they promoted alternative strategies, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects, extending colonial police networks, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. The Taiwanese—merchants, gangsters, policemen, interpreters, nurses, and soldiers—seized new opportunities for socioeconomic advancement that did not always align with Japan's imperial interests. Drawing on multilingual archives in six countries, Imperial Gateway shows how Japanese officials and Taiwanese subjects transformed Taiwan into a regional gateway for expansion in an ever-shifting international order. Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author : Martin Dusinberre
Release : 2023-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 512/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mooring the Global Archive by : Martin Dusinberre
Download or read book Mooring the Global Archive written by Martin Dusinberre. This book was released on 2023-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. This compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia. These stories bring together transpacific historiographies of settler colonialism, labour history and resource extraction in new ways. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. This engaging investigation into archival practice asks, what is the global archive, where is it cited, and who are 'we' as we cite it? This title is also available as Open Access.
