The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 /...
The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 /...
The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 / Sidney Xu Lu. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (xiv, 310 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Introduction: Malthusian expansion and settler colonialism : Japan in global history -- Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido and North America and the rise of Malthusian expansionism -- Chinese exclusion in the U.S. and the Japanese expansion to the South Seas, Hawai'i and Latin America -- The F...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
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2019.
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This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus...
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The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 / Sidney Xu Lu. [electronic resource]
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jul 2019).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1-108-48242-2
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74VKaz0aqxmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0aqxmZ
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1-108-60618-0
1-108-62225-9
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304.80952/09034
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991024402508302626
