ISBN:
9781108482424
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 310 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte
Series Statement:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Parallel Title:
Äquivalent
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.80952/09034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1868-1961
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Malthusianism
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Demographic transition / Japan
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Diskurs
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Auswanderung
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Übervölkerung
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Japan / Colonies / History / 20th century
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Japan / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century
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Japan / Emigration and immigration / History / 20th century
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Japan / Foreign relations / 1868-
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Pazifischer Raum
;
Japan
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Japan / Colonies / History / 19th century
;
Japan / Colonies / History / 20th century
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Japan / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century
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Japan / Emigration and immigration / History / 20th century
;
Malthusianism
;
Demographic transition / Japan
;
Japan / Foreign relations / 1868-
;
Demographic transition
;
Diplomatic relations
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Malthusianism
;
Japan
;
Since 1800
;
History
;
Japan
;
Übervölkerung
;
Diskurs
;
Auswanderung
;
Pazifischer Raum
;
Geschichte 1868-1961
Abstract:
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 people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history. This title is also available as Open Access.
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