Provincializing Empire

Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39011-9
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uchida, Jun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Map of Japan and the Pacific World

Introduction

Part One. Omi Merchants in the Early Modern Era
1. The Rise of Omi Shonin as Diasporic Traders

2. At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido

Part Two. Omi Merchants as a Model of Expansion
3. A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery

4. The Production of Global Omi Shonin

Part Three. Omi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora
5. The “Goshu Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire

6. Omi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail

7. A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary-Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jun Uchida is Asian Cultures and Society Professor and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945.