Demarcating Japan : imperialism, islanders, and mobility, 1855-1884 /
Takahiro Yamamoto.
Bok Engelsk 2023
| Omfang | xvi, 266 pages : : illustrations, maps (some color) ;
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| Opplysninger | 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 in 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"--
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| ISBN | 9780674291386
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