Open Access Edition of Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

FAIN: DR-286799-22

University of California Press Foundation (Oakland, CA 94612-3764)
Kim Robinson (Project Director: November 2021 to September 2022)
Erich van Rijn (Project Director: September 2022 to July 2023)

This project will publish the book Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora, written by NEH Fellow Jun Uchida (NEH grant number FO-262028-19), in an electronic open access format under a Creative Commons license, making it available for free download and distribution. The author will be paid a royalty of at least $500 upon release of the open access ebook.

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Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
Year: 2023
ISBN: 97805203901
Publisher: University of California Press
Author: Jun Uchida
Abstract: 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.
Primary URL: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.144/
Primary URL Description: University of California Press Luminos
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.1791907
Secondary URL Description: JSTOR
Type: Single author monograph

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