Provincializing Empire : Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora,...

by Jun Uchida

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Provincializing Empire : Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora, Paperback by Uchida, Jun, ISBN 0520390113, ISBN-13 9780520390119, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A free version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit to learn more. Provincializing Empire explores 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 Omi (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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN: 9780520390119
• Condition: Fine

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