Negotiating with Imperialism
Title | Negotiating with Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael R. Auslin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2009-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674020313 |
Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the 'unequal' commercial treaty with the US. Over the next 15 years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped in response to the Western imperialist challenge. This book explains the emergence of modern Japan through early treaty relations.
Negotiating with Imperialism
Title | Negotiating with Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Robert Auslin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Empire by Treaty
Title | Empire by Treaty PDF eBook |
Author | Saliha Belmessous |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199391785 |
Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900 includes indigenous voices in the debate over European appropriation of overseas territories. It is concerned with European efforts to negotiate with indigenous peoples the cession of their sovereignty through treaties.
Negotiating Paradise
Title | Negotiating Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Merrill |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080783288X |
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbors to engage in lopsided negotiations. Dennis Merrill's comparative history of U.S. tourism in L
Significant Soil
Title | Significant Soil PDF eBook |
Author | Emer O'Dwyer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2020-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684175526 |
"Like all empires, Japan’s prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This book focuses on Japan’s Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China’s three northeastern provinces. The hybrid nature of the leasehold’s political status vis-à-vis the metropole, the presence of the semipublic and enormously powerful South Manchuria Railway Company, and the region’s vulnerability to inter-imperial rivalries, intra-imperial competition, and Chinese nationalism throughout the first decades of the twentieth century combined to give rise to a distinctive type of settler politics. Settlers sought inclusion within a broad Japanese imperial sphere while successfully utilizing the continental space as a site for political and social innovation.In this study, Emer O’Dwyer traces the history of Japan’s prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria—and especially its principal city, Dairen—was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army’s early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, Significant Soil demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers’ determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire."
Empires on the Waterfront
Title | Empires on the Waterfront PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine L. Phipps |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020-05-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684175488 |
"Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan’s extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowledged system of “special trading ports” that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the shadow of the better-known treaty ports. By allowing Japan to circumvent conditions imposed on treaty ports, the special trading ports were key to achieving autonomy and regional power.Catherine L. Phipps uses an overtly geographic approach to demonstrate that the establishment of Japan’s maritime networks depended on initiatives made and carried out on multiple geographical scales—global, national, and local. The story of the special trading ports unfolds in these three dimensions. Through an in-depth assessment of the port of Moji in northern Kyushu, Empires on the Waterfront recasts the rise of Japan’s own empire as a process deeply embedded in the complicated system of maritime relations in East Asia during the pivotal second half of the nineteenth century."
Lawyering Imperial Encounters
Title | Lawyering Imperial Encounters PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Dezalay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9781009493277 |
"This book revisits the relationship between the African continent and global capitalism since the nineteenth-century Scramble. It provides an unprecedented account of the correlation between the legacy of legal imperialism and British hegemony, and the expansion of finance and international law in the current rush for Africa's 'green' minerals"--