The Kuroshio frontier : empire and environment in the making of Japan's Pacific /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2026.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge oceanic histories.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Japan, the Kuroshio, and the creation of a Pacific world
- The geophysics of Japan's terraqueous metabolism
- Maritime practice and virtual geography
- The invention of Japan's Pacific
- Harbingers of empire
- Naval technology and the geopolitics of the Kuroshio Highway
- Tokugawa colonialism and the symbolism of modern statehood
- Science, state, and piracy in the making of an imperial frontier
- South Sea romanticism and the emergence of frontier tycoons
- Epilogue : the unending Kuroshio frontier.