Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora (Book)
Title: Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
Author: Jun Uchida
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780520390119
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry (9780520390119)
Publisher: University of California Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780520390119

Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora (Book)
Title: Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
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.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390119/provincializing-empire
Primary URL Description: 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.
Secondary URL: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.144/
Secondary URL Description: 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.
Access Model: open access
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520390119
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