{"product_id":"provincializing-empire-omi-merchants-in-the-japanese-transpacific-diaspora-volume-18-paperback","title":"Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora Volume 18 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJun Uchida\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvincializing Empire \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from Ōmi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvincializing Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a stimulating and persuasive account of the \u003ci\u003elongue durée\u003c\/i\u003e of Japanese capitalist development, connecting Japanese historiography to important conversations on the history of racial capitalism and geographies of space, place, and scale.--David Ambaras, author of \u003ci\u003eJapan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wide-ranging yet richly documented, \u003ci\u003eProvincializing Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful new transregional history of Japanese capitalism, challenging claims about the developmental state. It tells the fascinating story of a merchant diaspora whose growth was entwined with Japanese imperialism, and of the invented traditions that sustained provincial identity amid global commercial expansion.\"--Jordan Sand, author of\u003ci\u003e Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A tour de force! Jun Uchida's lucid narrative illuminates the multidirectional movements of settler-migrant merchants from peripheral Japan that cut across the prescribed borders of empires and nation-states. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, \u003ci\u003eProvincializing Empire\u003c\/i\u003e calls into question many assumptions about Japanese imperialism and offers a less spatially bounded story of grassroots expansionism.\"--Eiichiro Azuma, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Provincializing Empire is a wonderfully creative model for connecting local and global history. Uchida frames her stimulating account of Japanese overseas commercial expansion, colonialism, and diaspora not as the top-down story of state policy but as the local history of a mercantile community.\"--David L. Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJun Uchida\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University and author of \u003ci\u003eBrokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 378\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42122766057607,"sku":"9780520390119","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a060f6adbc51fdba203e4d28048be529.webp?v=1732562213","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/provincializing-empire-omi-merchants-in-the-japanese-transpacific-diaspora-volume-18-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}