The making of Japanese settler colonialism Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Malthusian expansion and settler colonialism : Japan in global history
- Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido and North America and the rise of Malthusian expansionism
- Chinese exclusion in the U.S. and the Japanese expansion to the South Seas, Hawai'i and Latin America
- The First Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese labor migration to the U.S.
- Japanese rice cultivation in Texas and the paradigm shift of Malthusian expansionism
- "Carrying the white man's burden" : the Japanese American enlightenment campaign and the rise of Japanese farmer migration to Brazil
- The marriage of Malthusian expansionism and Japanese agrarianism and the creation of the migration state
- Nagano migration and the illusion of co-existence and co-prosperity in Japanese settler colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria
- The resurgence of Japanese migration to South America and the decline of Malthusian expansionism
- Conclusion: Re-thinking migration and settler colonialism in the modern world