Demarcating Japan : Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 / / Takahiro Yamamoto

• Autore: Yamamoto Takahiro
• Pubblicazione: Massachusetts ; ; Cambridge : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 pages)
• Disciplina: 327.52
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Histories of remote islands around Japan are usually told through the prism of territorial disputes. In contrast, Takahiro Yamamoto contends that the transformation of the islands from ambiguous border zones to a territorialized space emerged out of multilateral power relations. Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations during the formative years of modern Japan as empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Based on multiarchival, multilingual research, 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. See Less
• Altri titoli varianti: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884
• Titolo autorizzato: Demarcating Japan
• ISBN: 1-68417-671-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911026046503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Harvard East Asian monographs ; ; Volume 460.