Allure of Empire - American Encounters With Asians in Age of Transpacific Expansion

The Allure of Empire traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage and how these ideas shaped US foreign and immigration policies before World War II. It examines how the United States emerged as a Pacific power by collaborating with Japan to maintain an imperial order across the Pacific and how this cooperation depended on positive assessment of Japan's colonial rule of Japan.

List of contents

• Note on Romanization


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Seeing Race Beyond the Color Line


• Chapter 1: Empires of Reform: The United States, Japan, and the End of Korean Sovereignty, 1904-1905


• Chapter 2: Between Empire and Exclusion: The Professional Class at the Helm of Anti-Japanese Politics, 1905-1915


• Chapter 3: Uplifting the "Subject Races": American Missionary Diplomacy and the Politics of Comparative Racialization, 1905-1919


• Chapter 4: Empires of Exclusion: The Abrogation of the Gentlemen's Agreement, 1919-1924


• Chapter 5: Faith in Facts: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Quest for International Peace, 1925-1933


• Chapter 6: Toward a New Order: The End of the Inter-Imperial Relationship across the Color Line, 1933-1941


• Epilogue: The World Empires Made


• Note on Sources and Abbreviations


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Chris Suh is Assistant Professor of History at Emory University.

Product details

• Authors: Suh, Chris Suh, Chris (Assistant Professor of History Suh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197631614
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763161-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, History of the Americas