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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2019.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.