01750nam 2200349 n 450 991066981830332120241107094311.0(CKB)5690000000115032(NjHacI)995690000000115032(MiAaPQ)EBC31520017(MiAaPQ)EBC31655163(EXLCZ)99569000000011503220230510d2023 uu 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProvincializing Empire Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora /Jun UchidaOakland, California :University of California Press,2023.1 online resource (xii, 360 pages)0-520-39011-3 "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.JapanCommerceHistory338.0952Uchida Jun761876NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910669818303321Provincializing Empire3364227UNINA