| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs
Harvard East Asian monographs 460. ^A21267
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| Contents |
Imperialists and Interpreters in the Tsushima Strait Region -- The Ryukyu Islanders and Their Altered Mobilities -- Violence, Conviviality, and Survival in Sakhalin -- And Then There Were None: The Kuril Islands -- "No Gain in Owning, No Pain in Losing": -- The Bonin Islands |
| Abstract |
""In modern Japan's formative years, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Tsushima, the Bonin Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands became the subject of inter-imperial negotiations, where empires nudged each other to secure their status with minimal costs rather than fighting a territorial scramble. Demarcating Japan argues that the transformation of border islands should be understood in as an interconnected process, where inter-local referencing played a key role in the outcome-Japan's geographical expansion in the face of domineering extra-Asian empires"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022027045 |
| ISBN | 9780674291386 |
| ISBN | 0674291387 hardcover |
