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Record Nr.

UNINA9910669818303321

Autore

Uchida Jun

Titolo

Provincializing Empire : Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora / / Jun Uchida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2023

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 360 pages)

Disciplina

338.0952

Soggetti

Japan Commerce History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Omi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange"-- Provided by publisher.