The Kuroshio Frontier: Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific - Couverture rigide

Rüegg, Jonas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009534572 ISBN 13 : 9781009534574

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonas Rüegg teaches Global History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009534572
• ISBN 13: 9781009534574
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie