Demarcating Japan imperialism, islanders, and mobility, 1855-1884

Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands

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1. Verfasser: Yamamoto, Takahiro (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London Harvard University Asia Center 2023
Schriftenreihe:Harvard East Asian monographs 460
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Zusammenfassung:Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands
"In modern Japan's formative years, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations, where empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome-Japan's geographical expansion in the face of domineering extra-Asian empires"
Beschreibung:xvi, 266 Seiten
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ISBN:9780674291386
978-0-674-29138-6