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8%OFFEmer O´dwyer - Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - 9780674504332 - V9780674504332
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Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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Description for Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan's Urban Empire in Manchuria (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Hardcover. Focusing on Japan's Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China's northeastern provinces, Emer O'Dwyer traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades to show how South Manchuria was naturalized as a Japanese space and how this process contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Num Pages: 526 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 41. Weight in Grams: 864.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674504332
SKU
V9780674504332
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About Emer O´dwyer
Emer O’Dwyer is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.

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