On the Frontiers of History Rethinking East Asian Borders
Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like 'Asia' as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become h...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra :
ANU Press
2020.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655146406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Anti-Area Studies Revisited
- 2. Mapping Time and Space
- 3. 'Tartary' in the Reshaping of Historical Thought
- 4. Unthinking Civilisation: An Imbricated History of the Okhotsk Region
- 5. The Telescope and the Tinderbox: Rediscovering La Pérouse in the North Pacific
- 6. Lines in the Snow: The Making of the Russo-Japanese Frontier
- 7. Indigeneity and Modernity in Colonial Karafuto
- 8. Japan and its Region: From Tartary to the Emergence of the New Area Studies
- Concluding Thoughts: On the Value of Small Histories.
