Placing Empire

Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29391-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 154 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

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Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. The book thus illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Tourismus & Reise: Allgemeines, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Geography of Civilization
1. Seeing Like the Nation
2. The New Territories

Part II. The Geography of Cultural Pluralism
3. Boundary Narratives
4. Local Color
5. Speaking Japanese

Conclusion

Appendix: Place Names
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kate McDonald is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.