The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism - Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868–1961

List of contents

Introduction: Malthusian expansion and settler colonialism; Part I. Emergence, 1868-1894: 1. From Hokkaido to California: the birth of Malthusian expansionism in modern Japan; 2. Population and racial struggle: the South Seas, Hawai¿i, and Latin America; Part II. Transformation, 1894-1924: 3. Commoners of empire: labor migration to the United States; 4. Farming rice in Texas: the paradigm shift; 5. 'Carrying the white man's burden': the rise of farmer migration to Brazil; Part III. Culmination, 1924-1945: 6. Making the migration state: Malthusian expansionism and agrarianism; 7. The illusion of coexistence and coprosperity: settler colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria; Part IV. Resurgence, 1945-1961: 8. The birth of a 'small' Japan: postwar migration to South America; Conclusion: rethinking migration and settler colonialism in the modern world.

About the author

Sidney Xu Lu is Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University.

Summary

This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the anxiety about overpopulation to justify settler colonialism. Lu reveals the ideological ties, human connections, and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese emigration in Hawaii, North and South America. This title is also available as Open Access.

Product details

• Authors: Sidney Xu Lu, Sidney Xu (Michigan State University) Lu
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108712316
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71231-6
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 150 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Illustrations: 30 b/w illus. 4 tables, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Japan, 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Asian History, History and Archaeology