The Kuroshio Frontier
Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-53457-4 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-53457-4 (ISBN)
This big-picture narrative of modern Japan embeds the archipelago's history in its maritime context. Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to the modern reinventions of Japan. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This big-picture narrative of modern Japan embeds the archipelago's history in its maritime context. Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to economic, intellectual, and geopolitical reinventions of Japan over the past four centuries. He draws up a novel geography of conflicts and competitions in the making of 'modern' Japan, one that underlines little known actors, sites, and events which have previously been treated as peripheral. This book offers a framework that transcends conventional spatial and temporal categorizations of early modern and modern, shogunal and imperial, insular and global. Guiding the reader from seventeenth-century Pacific explorations to the “opening” of Japan by whalers, coolies, and castaways, and on to the competition over remote islands, Rüegg offers a greater perspective on the role of oceans in the Anthropocene. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This big-picture narrative of modern Japan embeds the archipelago's history in its maritime context. Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to economic, intellectual, and geopolitical reinventions of Japan over the past four centuries. He draws up a novel geography of conflicts and competitions in the making of 'modern' Japan, one that underlines little known actors, sites, and events which have previously been treated as peripheral. This book offers a framework that transcends conventional spatial and temporal categorizations of early modern and modern, shogunal and imperial, insular and global. Guiding the reader from seventeenth-century Pacific explorations to the “opening” of Japan by whalers, coolies, and castaways, and on to the competition over remote islands, Rüegg offers a greater perspective on the role of oceans in the Anthropocene. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Jonas Rüegg teaches Global History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Preface and acknowledgement; Introduction: Japan, the Kuroshio, and the creation of a Pacific world; 1. The geophysics of Japan's terraqueous metabolism; 2. Maritime practice and virtual geography; 3. The Invention of Japan's Pacific; 4. Harbingers of empire; 5. Naval technology and the geopolitics of the Kuroshio Highway; 6. Tokugawa colonialism and the symbolism of modern statehood; 7. Science, state, and piracy in the making of an imperial frontier; 8. South Sea romanticism and the emergence of frontier tycoons; Epilogue: the unending Kuroshio frontier; Appendix I.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Oceanic Histories |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 630 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-53457-2 / 1009534572 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-53457-4 / 9781009534574 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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