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Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
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Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
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Kate McDonald
2017
Published by:
University of California Press
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Placing Empire
examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. The book thus illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance.
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Cover
Title
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
pp. xi-xii
Preface and Acknowledgments
pp. xiii-xvii
Introduction
pp. 1-22
Part I. The Geography of Civilization
pp. 23-24
1. Seeing Like the Nation
pp. 25-49
2. The New Territories
pp. 50-80
Part II. The Geography of Cultural Pluralism
pp. 81
3. Boundary Narratives
pp. 83-102
4. Local Color
pp. 103-134
5. Speaking Japanese
pp. 135-159
Conclusion
pp. 160-175
Appendix: Place Names
pp. 177-179
Notes
pp. 181-220
Selected Bibliography
pp. 221-244
Index
pp. 245-254
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003
004
005
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520967236
Related ISBN(s)
9780520293915
DOI
10.1353/book.63417
MARC Record
OCLC
1085410600
Pages
231
Launched on MUSE
2019-02-13
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY
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