Mooring the Global Archive - A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories

"The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world"--

List of contents

Note on the Text; Preface; 1. Archival traps; 2. Between the archives; 3. Outside the archive; 4. Archival country, counter claims; 5. The archive and I; 6. The burned archive; Epilogue.

About the author

Martin Dusinberre is Professor for Global History at the University of Zurich.

Summary

The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world.

Foreword

Tracing a Japanese steamship's journeys in the 1880s-90s, this is the first analysis of archival methodologies in writing global history.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Dusinberre, Martin (Universitat Zurich) Dusinberre, Dusinberre Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781009346511
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934651-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Oceanic Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / World, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, East Asia, Far East, General and world history, History: theory and methods