Joseph A. Seeley

Border of Water and Ice (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ice, timber-cutters, anti-Japanese guerrillas, smugglers, and other borderland actors also spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan's wider political and economic power.

Drawing on archival sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, Seeley tells the story of the river and the imperial border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501777400
• Artikelnr.: 72291428

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Seeley is Assistant Professor in the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. He specializes in the histories of Korea, the Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments and borderlands.

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