Joseph A. Seeley

Border of Water and Ice

The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, this book examines how the seasonal freezing, thawing, and flooding of the Yalu River between Korea and Manchuria (northeast China) shaped imperial Japanese border governance and regional expansion ca. 1905-1945"--

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Produktdetails

• The Environments of East Asia
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9781501777387
• ISBN-10: 1501777386
• Artikelnr.: 71236457

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Seeley. foreword by Albert L. Park

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: History, Religion, and the AmericanImagination of the Pacific
PART I: Hawai'i
1. Venerated Father: "Missionaries," Mission History, and NativeHawaiian
Sovereignty
2. From the Beginning of the World: The Contested Terrain ofHistory in
Hawai'i
3. A Past That is Often Noble: Memory, "Unwritten Literature,"and the
Consolidation of an American Hawai'i
PART II: The Philippines
4. A Sudden Turn of History: Providence, Crisis, and US Empirein the
Philippines
5. A Dark and Troubled Past: Missionaries and Historicism inthe Philippines
6. A Chosen People: Filipino Nationalism, ProtestantMissionaries, and the
Long Philippine Past
Conclusion: The Purposes and Ambivalences of MissionaryKnowledge Production