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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 Ōmi (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.
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 Ōmi (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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 378
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Asia Pacific Modern
Publication Date:
21 February 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520390119
Format: Paperback
"Jun Uchida’s magnificent new book. . . . Speaks not merely to the historiography of modern Japan but to wider debates about evolutions in imperial practices across an alleged early modern/modern rupture. . . . She has pushed scholars to understand ‘provincializing’ in a way different from Chakrabarty’s: one that pays real attention to local voices, ideas, and practices."
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of Japan and the Pacific World
Introduction
Part One. Ōmi Merchants in the Early Modern Era
1. The Rise of Ōmi Shōnin as Diasporic Traders
2. At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido
Part Two. Ōmi Merchants as a Model of Expansion
3. A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery
4. The Production of Global Ōmi Shōnin
Part Three. Ōmi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora
5. The “Gōshū Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire
6. Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail
7. A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary-Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Map of Japan and the Pacific World
Introduction
Part One. Ōmi Merchants in the Early Modern Era
1. The Rise of Ōmi Shōnin as Diasporic Traders
2. At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido
Part Two. Ōmi Merchants as a Model of Expansion
3. A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery
4. The Production of Global Ōmi Shōnin
Part Three. Ōmi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora
5. The “Gōshū Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire
6. Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail
7. A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary-Index